The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 18, 1930, Page 3

DALIY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1930 Page Three ° THE JAPAN ELECTIONS AND THE MOVEMENT OF REVOLUTIONARY LABOR Mikado Dissolves Parliament; Finance Capital and Feudal Monarchy the Ruling Power 825 Revolutionary Workers Face Trial and May Be Executed Under Cover of Election By 8. SAKURAL military occupation of Shantung and A Tokyo dispatch of January 22} also the dynamiting of Marshall reports that the 57th session of the} Chang Tso-lin, although done for Imperial Diet, as was expected, has| the good of Japanese imperialism, been dissolved on the first day of|did not bring any of the desired; its veopening after Christmas re-| results. cess and the new election which has| On the contrary the way they to take place within 20 days has | were executed brought forth pro- been set for February 20. The rea-| tests from every quarter. Naturally son given for the dissolution of the| the protest came even from oe parliament was that “the govern- | bourgeoisie. ment was supported by only 172 of| In this connection it is necessary the possible 466 as against the op-|for us to remember that the state- position’s 240 and whose national|ment made by Comrade Tanaka at poliey differs greatly from that of| the Tenth Plenum of the E.C.C.I. He the government, which could not)said: “The seizure of Shantung by carry on its national policy smooth-| the Japanese imperialists had a two- ly” R fold meaning: Firstly, to divert at- From our point of view they are|tention from internal contradictions, both bourgeois parties. The onlyjand secondly, direct military action probable difference lies in the fact|of conquest.” (Inprecorr, Vol 9, No. that the present government party |51, p. 107.) gets its principal support from the urban bourgeoisie whereas the op- position’s main strength comes from The ruthless rationalization proc- ess in industry and extension of working hours coupled with in- the big landowner-bourgeois bloc.|creased “‘pauperization” of the Apparently the usual talk of com-|small peasantry, and small hold- promise and bargaining of members } ers were causing growing unrest of the parliament did not work out| within the country. The workers this time. * and peasants were rapidly drifting At this juncture it is necessary | towards the left. for us to realize how it happened; Then the mass strike and revolt in that the Tanaka Cabinet which was | Korea against Japanese imperialism supported by a majority in the| began to be felt strongly by the parliament had to be replaced by | Japanese ruling class, It wanted to minority forces last July. The an-|shift the attention of the middle swer is short but precise: “Such/class as well as of the backward was the demand of the Japanese | elements of the country from inier- finance capital.” {nal affairs to the external. When the Tanaka cabinet had re-| However, it could not let aione placed Wakatsuki’s government in| the internal trouble. To suppress the spring of 1927 following the no-|the mass movement of workers and torious bank failure it was because | peasants, both Japanese and Korean, the financiers then thought that | the old militarist, Premier Tanaka, General Tanaka’s Seiyukai party | pursued the same tactless “positive” would be of more help to them. | policy as he took in regard to China. However, during the two years Un defiance of the Imperial Diet, the that followed in which drastic eco-; Tanaka government proclaimed cn} nomic and industrial reorganization | June 29, 1928, as an Emergency }m- of the country had to be undertaken, | perial Ordinance, an. amendment to the Seiyukai cabinet whose ‘head; the now notorious “Peace Preserva- was the old militarist Tanaka, and | tion Law,” this time providing capi- whose finance minister was a one-|tal punishment for Communist iead- time school teacher Mitsuchi, showed | ers. itself to be utterly incapable of | Premier Tanaka’s government con- meeting such a great task. ducted two big Communists raids, For example, in spite of its re-| respectively, on March 15, 1928, and peated talk on lifting the gold em-| April 16, 1929, arresting more than bargo the Tanaka government ne- 2,000, of which $25 were charged ver could and, consequently never|with conspiracy. Their case is to did lift it. That this caused dissatis- faction among the big financial cir- cles could not be overestimated. Then the so-called “positive” and therefore tactless—I mean for the bourgeoisie—policy in regard to China, especially to Manchuria, was inviting a disastrous effect on Jap- anese capitalism as a whole. The come up in court for retrial in Feb- ruary or March, i.e, nearly two |years after their arrests. He also | ordered three militant labor organ- izations, i.e, the Labor-Farmer Party, the Left Union Centre and the Proletarian Youth League, to be dissolved in the spring of 1928. (To Be Continued.) Japanese Imperialists (By Pan-Pacific Red Aid Service) SHANGHAI.—According to des- patches by the World News Service to the “Kuo Min Jih-pao,” (Repub- lican Daily News), official organ of the Nanking government, Japanese soldiers in Kored fired upon and killed many Korean students during demonstrations for national inde- pendence during December. The im- perialist press here reported in a few lines the arrests of hundreds and gave a short summary of the Japanese government statement but has not mentioned these killings at all. The World News Service report gives a good picture of the brutal suppression of the Korean struggle. We have therefore translated it for the benefit of our readers, together with a despatch concerning an al- leged bomb plot by Koreans against Japanese officials in Korea. The reader will note that this latter item was released for publication just about the time that the Japanese government statement on the whole- sale arrests was made. It is obviously an attempt to brand the independence movement as wholly an effort by individual Korean terrorists to kill off the Jap- anese. The city of Kuang-chou re- ferred to in the Chinese newspaper is evidently the “Koshu” referred to, many places in Korea having three names—a Chinese, Korean and Japanese. The Dispatch is as fol- lows—dated from Seoul, Korea, De- cember 29: “A general strike in all schools has followed prey student riots at Japanese police fired on the students and by- Shoot Down Koreans } standers. Over 40 killed and an un- | known number injured. declares students began trouble by throwing stones at soldiers and at- tacking them generally. The soldiers retaliated and a struggle followed throughout the city, especially in the alleys, A number of the stu- dents carried revolvers. Boxes of ammunition were discovered in the ' boarding houses frequented by the | students. “Immediately (December 12) the | Japanese authorities enforced a | strict censorship, prohibiting any | mention of these incidents or of | rumors concerning the matter. It is | impossible to know therefore what are the conditions throughout the | country. Investigators appointed by | the ‘New Korea’ Society were ar- rested. All Korean organizations here have been placed under the strictest supervision (Seoul). The leaders of the above-named society together with the staff of the Far East Daily News and of all other important | groups have been taken into custody. Massacre Reported Also at Ping-rang. “On December 13 twelve Korean students at Ping-rang suddenly cried out: ‘Down with Japanese imperial- ism! ‘Long live Korean indepen- dence!’ They started a street parade which was participated in by a thousand other students. The Jap- anese troops and police were has- tened to all important points. “In the evening crowds of Korean girl students converged on the streets in the neighborhood of the Japanese troops and lectured the people, The troops used force to break up these gatherings with the result that an undetermined number are reported as killed or wounded.” 200 Jobless Workers and told of the 8,000 unemployed and starving workers in Greenville “The Japanese official statement | arad Greenvi alone. The curtailment planned i: P le in ¢ ile the textile industry is pil wee (Cortinued from Page One) suffering and the United Textile to speeches marched to the court| Workers Union has betrayed the house, bearing their placards, and| Mill workers, and is ignoring the the same speakers addressed them from the court house steps. The & the importance of the international demonstrations against unemploy- ment which will be held March ¢, ~ Negro workers. Solidarity Negro and White. Luther McCurry, a Greenville tex- tile worker told of the need of the Trade Union Unity League in this Period of general unemployment. Caroline Drew, Southern repre- | | | 1000 FOR JUNE |Changes in Officers; | Strike This Fall (Continued from Page One) land laid plans for bringing groups | of only from the N.M.U. locals, but also from Pit committees in the un- organized fields. Special efforts will be made to mobilize a strong bloc from the unorganized fields and from the South and Southwest. "To ensure its success the board decided to postpone the convention until early in June. The exact date will be set at the next meeting of the Resident Board. A series of important proposals of a concrete nature was also adopted by the Board, including the establishment of a Metal Mining Department, | which is to work out a program, | select organizers and extend its work in the field, Toohey Ill, Granted Six Months’ Leave. The report of Secretary-Treasurer | Pat Toohey contained a request that | he be granted a six months’ leave of absence because of general bad | |health accentuated by strenuous ac- | tivity in the field during the recent | struggles led by the union. The board unanimously granted Toohey’s request, and elected Chas. Guynn, at present national organizer, to be act- ing secretary-treasurer, and Free- man Thompson, of Illinois, as acting president, with Isiiah Hawkins as full-time head of the Negro depart- ment of the N.M.U. At the same time the board elected a bureau of seven to take full charge of the work of the union, to strengthen its lead- ership in the districts, and to pre- pare for the coming convention, This bureau is composed of Guynn, Thompson, Kemenevich, Hawkins, Tash, Giambattista and Siders. Guynn Long Active. Guynn, who is 27 years old, has \been @ coal miner for 14 years. His father, “Dad” Guynn, of Lansing, Ohio, has dug coal for more than 50 years. Both were. active in the “Saye-the-Union” movement in Ohio, preceding the formation of the N.M.U. His mother took a leading part among the women during the strike of 1927, and was among the 51! miners’ wives jailed in St. Clairs- | ville, O. Guynn has done field work for the N.M.U. in Hlinois, Ohio, the Anthracite, West Virginia and Penn- sylvania. He is at present free on | bond, following his conviction in Ohio recently on the charge of crimi- nal syndicalism. His case is being appealed. In accepting Toohey’s request for a leave of absence, the board as- signed him the task of preparing a {number of pamphlets for the N. M. U., dealing with the various prob- lems now facing the coal miners, if his health permits. This material, it was pointed out, is badly needed | to carry on effectively the agitation- al and organization work of the union. j At the same time the board in- ! structed the Resident Bureau to pre- pare at once a complete analysis of the mining situation and a program of action. Members Told of Decisions. Ina “letter to the members of the N.M.U.,” giving the decisions of the board, it is pointed out that the Na- tional Miners Union is now con- fronted with the greatest tasks in its history. The “letter,” signed by Freeman Thompson, acting presi- ‘dent, Chas. Guynn, acting secretary, {and the members of the Resident Bureau, states: “The speed-up and introduction of machinery, producing permanent mass unemployment in the industry, the continual wage cuts, the increas- ing brutal oppression by the govern- ment—city, county, state and na- tional—the open unity of the Lewis- Fishwick machine, the coal opéra- tors and the government against the miners and their families; the Ho- wats, Brophys, the Hapgoods, former ‘progressives’ who now strengthen the hands of the reac- tion by fighting the N.M.U.—all these developments show the rapid sharpening of the struggle in the coal fields and the mtal mining sec- tions, and are bringing ever larger numbers into open struggle either under the leadership of our union or in open opposition to the Lewis-Fish- wick leadership of traitors” Cites Ilinois Struggle. After pointing out that the coal industry is in a crisis for which its capitalist owners and their govern. ment have no remedy except the classic one of attempting to place the whole burden upon the and their families, the ‘letter” tells of the historic struggle in Illinois where more than 10,000 responded to the strike call of the National Miners Union. Citing especially this struggle the board emphasized that the N.M.U, accepts no compromise with the United Mine Workers of America, and fights relentlessly against that outfit. The officialdom of the U. M. W. A. it was pointed out, has from @ policy of secret be- trayal to one of furnishing a work- ing class face for the fascist attacks on the miners. The N.M. from Mlinois reported to | | | } | NMU BOARD CALL. ‘dlls. WORKERS «CORRESPONDENCE - CONVENTION OF THREE FORD CREWS DO WORK OF FIVE--- REST ARE LAID OFF “It’s Clear Unemployed Jobless Worker Correspondent Must Organize,” Writes Hoover “Prosperity” As Described By Workers, in More Industries and Plants (By a Worker Correspondent) SAN FRANCISCO, Calif—Oper- ating at far belew normal capacity, the Ford plant has so perfected its speed-up system, that work for- merly done by five crews of men is being done by three erews now. The men work 10 hours a day, and seven Temporarily?—Wages (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT. — I am sending you {this clipping of an ad, which ap-| peared in a Detroit paper, to show how wages are being reduced in this city. You might as well drop the word temporarily.—Detroit Worker. “Prosperity” Hits the Lay-offs SEATTLE, Wash.—Col. Blethen, owner of a daily newspaper called the Seattle Times has just come back from Washington where he had a conference with Hoover and the rest of the industrial barons about prosperity. Well, to make matters short, as soon as he got back he laid off half the crew in the printing shop, and he says he is going to lay off some more men. Strange to say, nothing is said about the lay-off in his newspaper, “It’s Clear That Unem (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA. — After being unemployed for over 4 months I have finally landed a temporary job for the wonderful sum of $2.50 per day to keep a family on. On ac- count of bad unemployment condi- tions in Phiadelphia about one hun- dred men with families are forced to accept this low wage from a pub- lishing house in Philadelphia that makes up the City Directory (R. L. Polk & Co.) Hoover “Prosperity”—Garbage Can For Jobless | (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA. — “Hoover prosperity” in Philadelphia. I saw a working-man out of work, told me he hadn’t worked for 9 weeks, tak- days a week. Not satisfied with the results of its former staff of fore-| men, Ford officials from the Hast}! have completely re-organized the! slave-drivers by firing all the old) foremen and supervisors, and put-| ting in an entirely new personnel.-- | Ford Worker. Permanently Reduced! Here’s the ad: | TOOL DESIGNERS — First-class} jig and fixture men willing to} {work at reduced rates temporarily. Give name, phone number and last} place employed. Address Box 2451,) Detroit Free Press. | Printshop Workers—| and the same number of papers will} be printed as usual, but in order to} do this each man remaining on the job will have to do at least two men’s work with no raise in pay, needless to say. I understand now why Col. Blethen attended the Hoover conference. It was a profit- able trip for him, at the workers’ expense. Printshop workers must organize under the Trade Union Unity League. The A. F. L. printers’ union is shot full of graft and is for the bosses.—Printshop worker. ployed Must Organize” | | The job is calling on about 200) | homes a day, getting their names, | occupativn, ete. When asking the occupation of the resident, boarder, etc., I hear from about 30 per cent} of those I covered say, “He's not | doing «anything now.” “Unem- ployed!” “Not working,” ete. It’s clear that the unemployed jmust organize. In the T. U. U. L. we can organize the unemployed with the employed and force the) bosses to come across with relief.—| Publishing House Worker. | ing out discarded food from a gar- bage can and immediately consuming same. This alone shows the capital- list system is not for the workers, | and all workers must join the Com-| imunist Party.—F. R. | Hosiery Fakers Soviet (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The mis- leaders of the A. F. of L. called a mass meeting at the Allegheny The- | atre to protest against the injunc- tion against picketing by the Aberle hosiery strikers handed down by Judge McDevitt, who was supported and approved by these very same misleaders. A torrent of abuse was hurled at the workers by the labor | fakers and the invited speakers— and the main speaker was the arch betrayer and enemy of organized la- bor-—Senator Brookhart, who spewed forth a torrent of lies against Soviet Russia and alvocated co-operation with the cockroach business men and others who are being oppressed and eliminated by the finance capitalists. The A. F. of L. officials, like Green, McKewen, of the hosiery workers, etc., advocate co-operation with the bosses—who are their masters and whose policy they fol- Friends of Soviet Union Call Protest Meets on War Plans The Executive Committee of the Friends of the Soviet Union, Ameri- can Section, 175 Fifth Ave, New York City, has decided to organize mass meetings all over the country to protest against the new anti- Soviet aggressions by the imperial- ist powers. In New York City a big meeting will be held Monday, March 3, at 8 p. m., at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place. The La- bor Sports Union and Russian and other workers’ organizations are co- operating in the meeting. A statement issued by the Execu- tive Committee of the £.8.U. calls upon all workers and other sympa- thisers with the Soviet Union to make this protest meeting a real demonstration of their determina- tion to resist all attempts to crush the Workers’ Republic. The state- ment declares: “A new wave of anti-Soviet ag- how the U.M.W.A. henchmen served as deputy sheriffs, gunmen and .U. leaders | stoolpigeons and actively assisted the board | the operators in their effort to break the strike. sentative of the Workers Interna-| organizing could the unemployed} At the ti board dis- tional Relief stressed the necessity] better their conditions much, but|cussed tia aenees scsa ta te ithisens of solidarity between Negro and|that since the suffering was so|strnggle and urged that they be white workers under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League, which is organizing the unemployed. She stated that only by fighting and great, the W.LR. children’s kitchen early was opening %/ studied in order that they say serve in March injas a lesson in the coming struggle connection with the organization of/of the miners under the leadership the T.U.U.L. there, of the N.M.U, Idea of Strike—Is to Attack | Union low to sell out the workers on strike. | At the mass meeting very little was | said about the strike. No mass picketing was advocated, | nor was any mention made of the| unemployed in America. But the | politicians were very busy in sub- jecting and fooling the workers. The) strike can be won with a policy of struggle. First the strikers must control their union, not the labor fakers. Shop committees must be elected, and the injunction is but |a scrap of paper, issued by the capi- | |talist tool, Judge McDevitt, in the} interest of the bosses. To hell with the injunction and the tools of the capitalists. Mass picketing, all out on strike, spread the strike to all the mills. Join the T.U.U.L., which organized and led the Gastonia} strike and the New Bedford strike, which is struggling for the workers against the bosses. —wW. C. P. gression and provocation is sweep- ing the imperialist world. Enraged at the tremendous progress in build- ing socialism being made under the Five-Year Plan of Socialist Con- struction, the imperialists have now ‘called on their religious servants and the circus generals of the white guard hordes to incite the backward masses against the Soviet Union. WRITE about your conditions for the Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent. ‘ALK to your fellow worker in your shop about the Daily Worker. Sell him a copy every day for a week. Then ask him to become a regular subscriber. | the drop was even worse, of hundreds of thousands of slaves at the belt. Ford has thrown scores of thousands of workers on the streets after speeding them up to the limit. The workers and former workers of the Ford plants will be in the front ranks of the unemployed workers who demon strate on March 6 under the lead- ership of the Communist Party. Wo correspondents frequently write the Daily Worker of the slavery and the lay-offs in the Ford plants. UNEMPLOYME} DAILY. (Continued trom Page One) New York, a key industrial state, going | | down 34.4 per cent. The fact that the crisis is still} worsening, despite the much vaunt- | IN BUFFALO, N.Y, Mass. Un em ployed About 150,000 (Continued from Page One) T. U. U. L, and to organize for the demonstration on International Un- employment Day. s in Buffalo, and accompany it ve speakers on unemployment. | One unemployed worker, while a |meeting was going on in front of |the City “Employment” Bureau, bearing the demand for social insur- ance, inside the office and hung it |on the wall. For which terrible |“crime” he was beaten up and jailed, |being released on $500 bail, fur- nished by the International Labor Defense. | To try to “remedy” things, McClel- jlan, Commissioner of “Public Wel- | fare,” came down and talked to the unemployed at the “employment” bureau, denounced the T.U.U.L. and The Molders’ Union will also send} resolution to all the A. F. of L.| Henry Ford, chief slave driver |t0ok the bright idea and a banner| BIG WAR FLEETS | eae ae ‘ON UNEMPLOYED 1S OUTCOME OF NAVY ARMS MEET Recall War Threats That Hoover Made | (Continued from Page One} doors declared the situation to bé “serious.” Pe ee With even the appearances of “agreement” and “limMation” com- pletely out of the question at the | London conference, the war danger between the imperialist powers be- comes greater than ever before. Hoover, in his armistice day speech, threatened the other imperialist powers, saying, “There are fears, distrusts and smouldering injuries among nations which are the tinder of war.” He demanded that they reduce their navies while U. S, im- perialism be given “parity? with | Great Britain. His threats assume greater signi- fieance at the present stage of the race-for-armament conference, Russian Church ih threatened that any job seeker who jhad anything to do with the T.U.U.L. | | would be taken off the list—but as Denies Holy Lies GROWS MORE Nobody can be scared by that, since} |there are no jobs anyhow, the in-| cident merely hows how the city capitalist auth and the A. F. of L. social-fascists all work to- gether against the unemployed. The Council of Unemployed is go- ing full steam ahead in the fight for ed rise in steel output, is contained |all demands, and it will turn out | mains | general in a review by R. G. Dun & Co, business statisticians. The review says: “Most of the statistical barom- eters which measure the rise or fall of business continue to show declines from similar data a year ago. The loss in bank clearings re- large and is practically in the principal cities, sharp reductions in the value of building permits occurred again in | January, the excess of commodity price concessions is still marked, and railroad freight traffic is at the lowest level for several years.” | The basic industries are not re-| covering as the capitalist propa- gandists state, but continue in de- pression of a severe nature. The Tron Age states that there will be a reduction in steel production shown for February. In Pittsburgh, where steel production is at 65 per cent of capacity, as compared to 85 per cent last year, the Journal of Com-| “This | merce (Feb. 14, 1930) says: is accounted for largely by the con- tinued light demand from automo- | thousands on International Unem- | ployment Day, March 6, as a rally- ing day for further struggle to win all demands. |The Unemployed Struggle in Boston. | the unemployed in Massachusetts |has increased about 25,000 in the \last five weeks. We may safely say {there are about 150,000 throughout |the state. Department stores are |laying off thousands. The building |trades are hard hit. Construetion | permits for December were 59.1 per cent less than for December the year | before. Besides the wholly unemployed, there are about 200,000 that work only about two days a week. Thou- sands are found every day at Fords, the rubber and other factories, while |the water front is filled with part- time workers and those entirely job- less. No Longer Fear “Moscow.” BOSTON, Feb. 17.—The army of | (Continued from Page One} appealed for loyalty to the Soviets. The priests are a'lowed to hoki re- ligious services, to deliver sermons and give retigious instructions to adults The Metropolitan declares that the atrocity stories are absolutely base- less. There are no priests “sen- tenced to death for non-payment of taxes,” although there are occasional fines imposed in such cases. The |Greek Orthodox theological semi- nary exists unmolested in Moscow, Metropolitan Sergius condemns | the intervention of the pope, deelar- | ing that the pope sides with the rich against the poor, and Sergius indig- nantly rejects the hypocrisy of the head of a church (Rome) whieh is guilty of century-long persecutions, | of torture and murder, now insolent lenough to protest against non- | existent persecutions. Sergius suggested in the inter- | view that the pope’s aim is to se- cure an unfair advantage for Catho- licism. The speech of the Archbishop of Canterbury is declared by Sergius to be untrue. The heads of the Russian church are issuing a mamni- festo to the faithful rejecting imter- ference from outside churches which supported armed intervention against the Soviet Union. i The Trade Union Unity League, | aided by the Communist Party, has | | organized a Council of Unemployed. About 200 have so far joined the ennai When the lawyer protested such tes tive interests.” se ‘ Pw on Ss " “Never in the history of this de- council. Two demonstrations have Sartineat't pacacigy seid: Meee Jef. | Pen held. The Communists active- Zi ri is ly participated, and about 0 jobless fries, Commissioner of the Public fxs oe: ‘ a | workers have joined the Party. The Welfare Department in Detroit, the | workers are no longer afraid and heart of the automobile industry, | , “have conditions been as they ale he a" tne La prepaganda . .s4 | about “Moscow”—they are not at present, and each day sees the sit-| afraid of what “Moscow” meana uation grow worse. No future im-| They know now that the government | provement can be visualized, Inj a+ the g ni A fi | e State House and City Hall December we cared for 10,000 fam- |does not belong to the “people,” but ilies (of unemployed workers), and . ry our total for January is far in el eho earaea Boles clater engit cess of 14,000 (that is in spite of| Following the police clublings and Mr. Davis's and Mr. Hoover's fig-| iaitings, the arrested workers were ures that employment increased in| tried before Judge Zottoli, a Mus- January). Every available hospital solini “socialist,” Sho cane oak nate space is crowded to the very limit tonoes according to the positions the and more than 600 of our. patients yorkers held ia the Communist have had hed be placed in private in- | pavty ond Young Communist League. stitutions.’ Here is an actual picture of the} starvation of the automobile work-! ers as a result of unemployment. The same holds true for workers in every other industry. But the Unemployed Councils are organizing the unemployed, not to| stand by and see their families die! off by slow starvation, but to fight! for unemployment relief. Workers! Mobilize for the inter- national demonstration for work or | wages, March 6! Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspendent. Jobless Masses Cut Sale of Wheat) (Continued from Page One) out that the surplus of the 1928 crop is still on hand, that the world’s granaries are crammed with 1929 crop, and harvest of the 1930 ero; will begin within a few months, With mass unemployment in all) Notes of the Month. By GREGORY ZINOVIEV By OTTO HUISWOOD By M. RUBENSTLIN By MYRA PAGE, Author “So | Inter-racial Relations Among Southern Workers. timony being exacted, the judge ruled that the role of the Commu- nist Party and the League had to be: brought in, in order to-prove that they are “against the government.” All these repressions will net stop’ the Unemployed Council, which is affiliated with the T.U.U.L, nor will it stop the Communists from aiding the fight of the unemployed. The workers are ready to battle for | their rights to demonstrate for their |demands, the only way to force |some relief out of the coffers of the | capitalist class. Thousands wilt turn out for International Unemployment Day on March 6. And this will |broaden the organization and push \the fight for social insuranee more | vigorously, with much broader’ masses behind it. THE COMMUNIST Permanently Enlarged to 96 Pages (February Issue) JUST OFF THE PRESS Contents U.S. Agriculture and Tasks of the Communist Party of U. 8. % Are New Revolutions Impossible Without War? World Aspects of the Negro Question. | The Industrialization of the South and the Negro Problem. uthern Cotton Mills and Labor” countries totalling more than 15,-| The Second Congress of the Anti-Imperialist League. 000,000 . with 70,000,000 all told} counting their dependents, their | starvation cuts the markets for| wheat in all countries and inten- sifies the severe world agrarian crisis. By WILLIAM WILSON The Theoretical Knights of 0; By D. BUKHARTSEV Book Reviews. $2.00 per year—25c per copy Order from pportunism. 800 Arrests in January! Hundreds of Cases in Courts! Over $500,000 tied up in property and other bail bond! 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