The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 21, 1931, Page 1

iy i | coming Winter. y | i] t ' 1 if ScHooL . opens (Section of the Communist International), ™ Pasty, U.S.A. ~~ WORKERS OF THE WORLD, _UNITE! Vo: VIL, No. 227 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office <2 at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1931 Sn, CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents War in Manchuria! | T armed seizure of South Manchuria by Japariese military is a'de- cisive step toward world imperialist war. It bears familiar resem- blance to the seizure of Bosnia by Austria which began the World War of 1914. In both cases the seizures were called “local incidents,” and in 4 both were reflected the fight between imperialist powers standing behind 4 both the “aggressor” and the “victim.” ‘The difference is that now all imperialist powers see their main enemy in the country of victorious socialist construction—and the other difference is that now the imperialists find it more difficult to enthuse the masses for war. ‘The nearness of world war in the immediate future depends upon the developments in the struggle between the imperialists, and—more than ever—the resistance of the toiling masses on all fronts of the class struggle. But whatever the immediate future holds, American workers must draw certain lessons from the events. ‘The Manchurian conflict shows that the war danger is acute. A fact which American workers have under-estimated, being beguiled by paci- fist gabble about “peace.” Japanese diplomats even now, after seizing Manchuria, still declare for “peace”! The Kellogg Pact and the League of Nations are instruments of war, not of peace. Manchuria is seized, ‘but these imperialist agencies parley for time to prepare thelr own intervention! The most ridiculous excuses are made—that the Manchurian battles were not “official” but that both Chinese and Japanese soldiers “got out of control,” Washington does not see the Kellogg Pact violated—as yet— but “waits for developments” to determine its own policy and mobilize for action. The Geneva dispatches tell how “supporters of the League of Na- tions are highly pleased by the far feaching precedent of this decision"— the’ decision to accept Japanese promises to “appease the situation”—after the Chinese are completely conquered, Manchuria is in Japanese control and the imperialists prepare to intervene in a bloody war for their own interests. The Communist statement that the policy of Chiang Kai-shek and | .the whole Kuomintang of subservience to imperialism means the enslave- ment and division of China is proven by the easy victory of Japanese forces. But even while Japan was seizing Chinese territory, Chiang Kai- shek was busy fighting the Chinese Communists—the leaders of the masses in the only fight that can win national independence and unity through a Soviet power. ‘The evets prove up to the hilt the accuracy of the Communist Inter- ' national in foretelling the growing of inner and outer contradictions of imperialism and therefore the inevitability of a new world war. Events show the deepening crisis, the offensive of the capitalists against the toiling masses, the collapse of England (even though a “victor” in the past war!), the growing discontent of the masses, the strike wave and the mutiny in the British and Chilean fleets. : British imperialism will not be less—but more—ageressive, more fas- cist, and will try to reestablish its position both by frontal attack on its - workers and colonial slaves and by fiercer-competition with its imper- jalist rivals and—not the least~—by seeking to destroy and loot the Soviet ‘Union and the example it séts to British workers. American capitalists speak continually about the dangers of the But this “Winter has long ago begun. American im- perialism presses forward, especially in the Far East, colliding with Japan and Britain. It has long had eyes on Manchuria and Mongolia, and shamelessly backed the Chinese militarists in 1929 in the attempt to seize the Chinese Eastern Railway. ‘ n these maneuvers, American imperialism hes been in continual collision with Japanese interests. Previously, the two imperialist rivals , fought with Chinese tools on each side. Now Japan enters the fight with its own forces, and taking its advantage of nearness, acted swiftly and decisively. But Japan will not remain the sole “aggressor,” nor the most important one! The seizure of Manchuria proves that the growing contradictions and difficulties of imperialism does not lessen, but increases the war danger against the Soviet Union. American workers have a grave responsibility in not absorbing the lessons of the Manchurian conflict, but in them- selves preparing to meet the capitalist offensive against their own con- ditions and the peril of a new world war, of standing ever ready to defend the fatherland of all workers, the Soviet Union! “If the English lose confieence in sterling, it would mean univer- sal disaster—a catastrophic fall throughout the world.”—French Min- ister of Finance, M. Flandin. | Wie should understand from the above the world shaking sig- ‘¥ nificance of the collapse of the gold standard in England and the fall of the Pound Sterling on international exchange before Minister Flandin was through talking. The “loss of confidence” in British sterling, not only in countries out- side England, but by British capitalists themselves was first clearly shown by its immediate fall, the shrinkage in “value” of gilt-edge British Gov- ernment bonds of no less than $150,000,000 in one hour, and the follow- ing paragraph taken from the N. Y. Times dispatch from London on jaturday: “British papers are bombarding their readers with appeals not to convert sterling into foreign exchanges and not to regard the franc or the dollar as safer refuges.”, The dollar is not, indeed, a “safer refuge,” in the light of the correct analysis of the French Minister of Finance, as was shown immediately by the panic selling in Wall Street in “the wildest day this year”, when American high class stocks such as U. S. Steel, American Telephone and Telegraph, and a long list of others, collapsed under the “catastrophe,” the panic in Britain and the fall of Pound Sterling. Workers must by all means strive to understand the intimate con- nection these matters have with their own lives and destines. Events over the week end have been filled with importance to the life of every worker in America and throughout th world! 4 The British sailors mutiny had its share in the collapse of British | eredit. As the Daily Worker foretold when it occurred ,the mutiny would | ~ frighten world imperialism into speeding its war plans against the Soviet Union. The armed action of Japanese imperialism in Manchuria not only opens up the perspective of war between the imperialist powers, but. _ is a step toward armed attack on the Soviet Union. ‘War, both inter-imperialist and against the Soviet Union becomes nearer as the world crisis of capitalism turns into “universal disaster® _ and “catastrophe”, because all capitalist powers desperately seek the “solution” of their own salvation in a final appeal to arms, trampling over all the “peace pacts” and driven by panic of self-interest aré ready | to drench the world in the blood of the masses. . It was for this reason that the British Admiralty attempted to “pla- cate” the British sailors (though the wage cuts stand!), because it hopes to use these sailors soon in armed action! For this reason the fake “op- position” of the “labor” party “socialists” ceased even to talk against the ! ‘wage cut and made peace with the government. And for this reason, also, President Hoover suddenly changed his | mind and decided to address the American Legion Convention at Detroit. For here in America, too, Yankee imperialism figures that the Legion may soon be needed for war. ‘The Lecicnnaires will be asked to back up not only armed warfare abroad but ver againot the w rs at home, whose wages and conditions will be even more savagely atiecked os a result of the financial collapse in England, which with its collcpse of the gold standard on Sunday | will begin enormous dump:ng of goods on the world market, which Amer- © | Seas capitalists will try to meet by wage cuts compared to which those | already made will be nothing at all! ] War, hideous and bloody, stands beyond the collapse and bankruptcy ‘of British finance! American workers must prepare as never before to fight against it, first of all by refusing to beer the burden of the crisis , American capitalists intend to unload upon them! } whe o | | British Capitalism Bankrupt! TO MOBILIZE LEGIONINWAR ON WORKERS Hoover Detroit Meeting Monday To Strike at Bonus Imperialists Fear Dis- affection in the Armed Forces WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. — The frantic fear of the world imperialists that the growing disaffection in the armed forces and potential military forces will prevent their use against the rising struggles of the working- class is expressed in the reported ‘sudden decision” of President Hoover to accept an invitation to address the national convention of the Am- erican Legion, which opens Monday in Detroit. Hoover’s appearanse before the convention will be used to mobilize and pledge the war veterans for use against the millions of starving un- employed workers this winter and for the war preparations against the Soviet Union. His address will also be designed to blackjack the militant sentiment of the Legion rank and file for. the immediate cash payment of the Graveyard Bonus: to relieve the intense suffering of over 750,000 un- employed war veterans and their families. The New York Times Washington correspondent reports that Hoover's sudden decision to appear at the convention was made after a night conference with the chief big busi- ness representatives in his cabinet, Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) YOKINEN HEARING Fight Deportation of Militant | NEW YORK.—Native and foreign |born, Negro and white workers will | join tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock jin a protest demonstration against ; the Labor Department’s effort to rail- |read August Yokinen, Finnish Com- | munist, out of the country because he -| took a thoroughly Communist stand on the question of race equality last winter. The demonstration will take place in front of the Federal Build- ing, Park Place and Broadway. This show of mass interest in Yo- kinen’s case is timed with the hear- ing on the right of Yokinen’s, attor- ney to appeal the Department of La- bor Deportation ruling in the United States District Court. Yokinen was arrested in Spring of the current year after he submitted to-a Communist Party trial on 2 charge of “White Chauvinism.” At the time he was janitor of a Finnish worker's club in Harlem and charges ; were preferred against him in the Communist Party because he had re- fused to give to Negro visitors in the club the privileges which everyone else had. At the trial, Yokinen admitted that his attitude had been un-Communist. He reaffirmed his adherence to Com- munist principle and joined the League of Struggle for Negro Rights as proof of his sincerity. Shortly af- ter this trial, which was widely re- ported in the New York papers, Yo- kinen was seized on a deportation warrant. Even if Yokinen is granted the right to bring his case before the United States District Court, he has little justice to hope for, unless his legal fight is backed by strong mass sentiment, The effort to deport Yokinen brings out more clearly than ever the fact that Secretary of Labor Doak’s deportation drive is aimed, among other things, to divide native and foreign white and black workers, All out at: 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. to Address | PROTEST TUES. AT Tt is not an accirent that the Hoo- ver government, trying to cover its policy of “waiting for development” in Manchuria by the statement that there is no reason “thus far” fo rin- voking the Kellok Pact, refers to the intervention of Stimson in the con- flict between China and the Soviet Union in 1929, The N.Y. Times, re- porting the Washington attitude, adds: “When soldiers of the Nationalist Government of China and of the Russian Soviet clashed in Manchur- ia, Secretary Stimson called on both governments to live up to the ob- ligations of the Kellog Pact. An indignant response came from the Soviet Government, which ‘virtually told Secretary Stimson to mind his own businese, but the outcome of the disagreement was that war was avert The N. Y. Times conceals the dif- ference. between the two events: Japan attacking China and seiz- ing Manchuria, prepares the division of China and relies upon supporters among Chinese militarists. In 1939, the Chinese generals were instruments of world imperialism, first of all of American imperialism, and organized an attack on. the So- viet to provoke the Soviet Govern- ment, to test the resistance of the Red Army and try out the possibility for intervention. The intervention of Stimson was aimed to encourage the Chinese militarists and to lu. S. Leads War Plan on Soviet Behind Talk of “Non -Violation of Pact” frighten the Soviet Union. The intervention plot failed—but only because of the resistance of the Soviet Union against provocation and firm stand for peace but using the iron. resistance’ of the Red Army against attack, backed up by the en- tire Soviet masses and the solidarity of the workers of the whole world—~ particularly the sympathetic support of the Chinese masses. The Soviet Union not only told Stimson to mind his own business, and made him a laughing stock of the world around, but exposed the anti-Soviet war policy of American imperialism. The present seizure by Japan of Manchuria clear up to Chang-Chun, the Southern terminus of the Chin~- ese Eastern Railway, again shows the encroachment of imperialism toward the Soviet Union, as does the fact that the Japanese spies executed by the Chinese were involved in “mak- ing maps of Manchuria and Mon- golia.” ‘Thus, one of the principal points of importance in the seizure of Man- churia by Japan is the armed im- perialist approach to the borders of Soviet territory. The New York | American, Hearst’s paper, in cooking | up a scare headline of “Russian Mobilization on Border” is another indication of the connection in the minds of imperialists themselves, of Manchurian events with imperialist war on the Soviet Union. HARLAN, Ky., Sept. 21.—The six Harlan sine leaders still retained in jail here on charges of criminal syn- dicalism will be tried on Nov. 23, it was learned today by attorneys of the International Labor Defense to whom the miners have entrusted their de- fense. The 34 miners held for murder have had ,their trials postponed till De- cember. ILD attorneys declare that this act on the part of the prosecu- tion is part of a campaign to keep the men in’ jail as long as possible in order to hamper the leadership of the National Miners Union. The prosecution also fears a trial now | while workers are aroused to mass |demonstrations and protests over coal company justice in Kentucky, the attorney state, Judge D. C. Jones and Sheriff Blair have beén attempting to make | deals with miners, offering to release them from jail and drop the charges against them if they leave Kentucky with the promise never to return, Those who have been released and will not leave their homes, are being terrorized. ILD attorneys who visitoed the im- NEW YORK—A Negro and a white miner of Harlan, Kentucky, two of 34 miners facing a murder frame-up organized by the coal op- erators, will be brought to New York early next week. They will speak before mass meetings and demon- strations in the Méoney-Harlan- Scottsboro United Frunt campaign initiated by the International Labor Defense. ‘They will be part of a corps of Speakers, all-of them class-war pris- oners just released from the eapital- ist dungeons, who will help to rally the masses for the fight for amnesty for Tom Mooney and Billings, the Imperial Valley prisoners, the Scotts- boro boys, the Camp Hill croppers and all class-war prisoners still held in jail or out on bail awaiting trial. Among these speakers will be Jessie London Wakefield, I.L.D, Kentucky organizer, who spent six weeks in the prisoned miners here today found j Care court records of the case in great #80 East 11th St., Room 430, New York. Demonstrations This Week to Demand Release of Mooney 6 Harlan Miners on Trial November23;Need Funds 34 Miners Held for Murder to Be Tried in De- cember; Bosses Plot to Hold Men in Jail confusion. One miner was found held without being booked for any charge at all. When the ILD lawyer tried to get information about him and his arrest, he was shoved out of jail. . HARLAN, Ky., Sept. 21.— While Vincent Billotti,’/ militant Harlan County miner is rotting in jail on a diet of beans and cabbage, his wife has been bleeding to death at the Harlan hospital from flux, the star- vation disease which ts spreading like an epidemic among Kentucky miners. Meanwhile, their two boys are de- pending upon the care and food of neighbors, themselves too poor and starved to do more than barely keep themselves alive. Billotti is one of the six National Miners Workers Union leaders still held in jail for criminal syndicalism upon whom the prosecution, under coal company con- trol; will concentrate its attack. Unless workers rally to his defense, he will be imprisoned for 21 years and his boys will suffer the same fate as his wife. Send money for relief to the Kentucky Miners’ Aid, International Labor Defense, +: Workers In Fight}: For Class War Prisoners Harlan jail on a charge of criminal syndicalism for organizing defense and relief for the strike defendants and their families. Other speakers include Frank Spector, one of the Imperial Valley defendants; Bill Duncan, a Harlan miner and National Mine Workers leader, who helped in the organiza- tion of the Harlan miners after the operators imported Chicago gunmen with instructions to shoot the strike leaders; Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of the Scottsboro boys who are facing the electric chair in Alabama on a trumped up charge of rape as a “preventive measure” by the South~ ern landowners against the growing militancy-.of the Southern Negro TO HIDE WAR MANOUVERS Tmiperialiat ~ League Of Nations “Hopes”: For Settlement But Prepare to Fight U.S. Governm’t Says It’s “Only A Mutiny” NEW YORK.—Cumulative imper- ialist antagonisms, especially between Japanese and Anglo-American in- terests, broke to the surface Friday when with startling swiftness Jap- anese troops occupied the 700 miles of the Southern Manchurian railway, in a renewal of war that may lead to a new world conflagration. Coinciding with the weakness of the American backed Nanking gov-| ernment, now fighting the Cantonese ; and losing out in the anti-Communist | front; the internal difficulties of | British imperialism, Japan timed its move to meet with the least possible immediate resistance. The Moscow Pravda in its issue of | September 9th already foretold the} present imperialist outbreak, when it wrote: “Penetration of Anglo-American capital into Manchuria has aroused | the Japanese into hastening their (CONTINUED THREE) PAGE Victory Again for | Furniture Workers, |All Demands Won; 6th' Shop to Settle Last Friday another upholster | shop, Saul Kass, submitted to all the | demands of the Furniture Workers’ | Industrial Union. The main demands | | were: 40 hours a week, dollar hour | ; minimum, control of job, equal divi- | sion of work, no discrimination, rec- | ognition of union and shop commit- | tees, etc. Out of the twenty shops with three | hundred workers that have struck | since the beginning of the strikes | three weeks ago, six of them with a} hundred workers have already settled | with all union demands, Every day since the beginning new shops came out and the policy of the strike com- mittee is to spread the strike fur- ther throughout the city to all other crafts of the furniture industry. All furniture workers are called to report at 6 a. m. at 46 Ten Eyck St., ‘Brooklyn, corner of Lorimer, for strong picketing of the various struck shops. Workers Correspondence ts the backbone of the revolutionary press. Build your press by writing for it about your day-to-day struggie. masses; Pat Toohey, mine leader who has been in many bitter fights against the coal operators in the Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Vir- ginia districts. Frank Spector, who has just been released from San Quentin prison as @ result of mass pressure, and who saw Tom Mooney in jail, will tell how the California bosses are trying to undermine the health of Tom Mooney by hard labor and unhealthy cell conditions. Spector brings a militant message from Tom Mooney to the working class to unite behind the amnesty campaign. T he Mooney-Harlan-Scottsboro United Front campaign will rally the workers and poor farmers through~ out the country in mass demonstra~ tions and conferences for a stern fight for the immediate and uncon- ditional release of Tom Mooney, the ‘Beottshora boys and other victims | the demonstration was ‘that of the | Workers Industrial Union, came to | onstration which they had had at | South Streets. | which the capitalists are carrying on | workers throughout the world. The | movement. throughout the world! JAPANESE SEIZE MANCHURIA; WORLD WAR THREATENS Great Britain Off ( Gold Standard; Finance Structure Shakes TALK “PEACE” 5000 New York Workers Demonstrate Solidarity With Briti Adopt Resolution To | Stand By Militant British Sailors U.S. Seamen Protest Pledge to Defend the Soviet Union | About five thousand workers dem- onstrated Saturday in Union Square | in New York in solidarity with the militant actions of the British sea- men who struck against the hunger program ‘of the MacDonald National government, in solidarity with the revolt of the Chinean sailors and in protest against the attempt of the capitalist class of Canada to outlaw the Communist Party of Canada. One of the largest delegations to | | | | marine workers led by the Marine the Square in a body from the dem- the waterfront at Whitehall and at The marine workers brought with them a large red ban- ner which had been sent from the militant Chine-- seamen to their American brot’ ers through the .war- ine Workers Industrial Union. The workers at the demonstration enthusiastically adopted a resolution of solidarity with the actions of the British and the Chilean sailors and pledged to fight determinedly in the defense of the Soviet Union against @ more vicious campaign as the re- sult of the militant actions of the | resolution closed with the following | words: “This mass demonstration, called by the Communist Party, sends *s heartiest greetings to the British sailors and appeals to them to | unite with British and Indian | workers and peasants in the strug- | gle against British imperialism and | for setting up a Soviet Govern- ment. in England. We send our | heartiest greetings to the workers, peasants and Red sailors of Chile | and condemn the death erdict of | the Chilean Government against | these brave fighters. We send our heartiest greetings to the Com- | munist Party and workers and | small farmers of Canada and de- | clare “our everlasting — solidarity with the Canadian Party.” “We send our heartiest greet- ings to the Communist Party and the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union, and declare emphat- ically that if the imperialist gov- ernments dare to declare war on the workers’ fatherland we will defend the Soviet, Union against all its enemies! “Down with world imperialism! “Down with the social fascists, who line up with the open imper- ialists! “Hail the spirit of revolt of the British sailors! “Long live the solidarity of the workers, szilors and marines! “Hail the rising revolutionary “Long live the Soviet Union! Millions for Ten New Destroyers But. Not A Cent for Jobless WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 18.— War preparations rush ahead. The navy department has just taken bids for construction of ten big new 35- knot destroyers. Bath Iron Works, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Maryland Drydock Company, New- port News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. New York Shipbuilding Co., Pusey & Jones Corporation, and United Dry Docks, Inc., are dividing the work among them, each building on one or two of the destroyers. Bids for hull and machinery only range around $3,000,000 each. The ordin- ance equipment will be about $1,- 500,000 for each ship, * This money comes from the U. 8. government, which refuses to give one penny to save the lives of the millions of starving unemployed: ae | Saturday. sh Sailors 10,000 Teachers In Mass Protest At Wage Cut Foreign Bonds Crash U.S. Finances To Be Affected The National government has de~ cided that Great Britain must go off the gold standard, according to lat- est reports from London. This was decided on at the meeting of the leading British bankers with Ram- say ManDonald, socialist leaders of the National government, which took Place Saturday night. So serious is the situation that it has been decid- ed to close the stock exchange Mon- day. While the decision is to keep the stock exchange closed .only one day it is almost inevitable that the exchange will be forced to stay closed for quite a period The report from London points out that since about July 15 about 200,000,000 pounds (almost $1 ,000,000- 000) has been withdrawn Bee Lou- don. The suspension of the gala stand- ard will immediately react with tre- mendous effect-.on the financial structure of all capitalist’ powers. Even the bourgeois London corre- spondent of the New York Evening Post had to admit the tremendous effect that the suspension of the gold standard by Great ecg’ would have. “If a world-wide financial cala- clysm is to be averted, America must perforce take action quickly. It must be remembered that were nEgland to depart from the gold standard, the effect on America would be great.” England has already gone off of |the gold standard. The entire capi- talist world will soon shake as a re- sult. This was pointed out by Flan- din, French Minister of Finance on Flandid stated that, “If the English lose confidence in sterling, it would mean univer- sal disaster—a catastrophic fall throughout the world. That is why France has intervened (with Amer- ica in recent credit extension) and will not hesitate to intervene again.” The financial crisis on top of the industrial crisis greatly sharpens the | danger of war, especially in view of the Japanese attack on British mar- kets in China The inevitable suspension of the gold standard was pointed out by one of the leaders of the Communist Par- ty of Great Britain more than a month ago. Comrade R. Palme Dutt in the September issue of the Labor Monthly pointed out that at this time it was practically impossibte that Great Britain could stop the gap between its foreign lending and the export of goods which has fallen sharply. “At this time,” comrade Dutt pointed out, “the real bankruptcy of the whole economic system will come (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 1,000 Frisco Workers Protest Massacre Of Chilean Sailors - SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. 20.—Market Street and its envir~ ons in the location of Chilean Consulate, presented a picture of an armed camp today, hundreds of police on foot, horse, with ma- chine guns mounted and motor- cycles, stationed in groups every few feet, were mobilized to pre- vent the demonstration against the’ execution and incarceration of the Chilean revolutionsrica. When Jean Mayeur, the first first speaker, began uttering his first few sentences from a tras¥ | can which was used as a speak-| er’s platform, police on hore and foot and plain clothes men rushed into and attacked the miceting. |