The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 15, 1931, Page 1

WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central - » Orge ae caist® Pert ULS.A. ‘(Section of the Communist Inertia) At, = Entered as second-cl: > N. Ys, matter ler the act of March 3, 1879 at the Post Office =: NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1931 CITY EDITION Vol. VIII, No. 248 A Touching Appeal from Kyoto NE who is known as “a conspicuous figure in Japan's religious life,” Count Kozui Otani, former Lord Abbot of the greatest Buddhist temple at Kyoto, has sent an appeal to “Christian America” asking sym- pathy for Japan's armed seizure of Manchuria, on the grounds that such seizure is a necessary measure against Bolshevism—against the Soviet Union. By this appeal, the Buddhist church, defender in the Far East of the darkness and oppression of feudalism, manifests its harmony with the Pope, the most vociferous supporter of feudal and capitalist darkness and exploitation of the West, in common enmity against the Soviet Union. This Buddhist has, by this appeal, revealed the * intrigue in Manchuria, a “soul” which has not been obvious and clear to the “man in the street,” because it was hidden by numerous events such as the Japanese-American conflict, a conflict which is real enough and itself a grave war menace, which by its “news interest” obscured the hitherto unmentioned but none the less growing danger of war against the Soviet Union. Listen to this “lord” of Buddha, appealing to Christian America: “The Japanese people are in circumstances of extreme difficulty. They are in the midst of an economic maelstrom and at the same time are facing the most difficult situation in China.” So far, the disciple of Buddha is merely stating facts. Indeed, pre- cisely because Japanese imperialism is in a crisis so deep and black that its only hope-yand a vain one at that—is the loot it might get out of China, is one reason for seizing Manchuria. Although it is rather pre- sumptuous for a Japanese imperialist to give these reasons to American imperialism, which has exactly the same reasons for preventing Japan’s seizure. But the Buddhist continues: “Chaotic Manchuria will be a fertile ground for pro-Russian intrigue. Manchuria is now a Soviet Dominion. Kiangsi and Fukien provinces, in the heart of China, are overrun by Commu- nists who tie Nanking Government is unable to overthrow. Red Russia is brooding over Asia, wherein Japan is the only stabilizing element.” What can be clearer? Here is a Japanese Count, a high religious and political figure, openly proclaiming that Japan's seizure of Man- churia is 4 move, a War move, againtt the Soviet Union on one hand, and to suppress the growing power of the Chinese Soviets! « Indeed, who is so simple as to imagine that Japan would seize South Manchuria, Without having in view the advantage of the position thus gained for war against the Soviet Union and the seizure of Soviet ter- ritory in Eastern Siberia. Certainly “Athericati imperialism understands Japan's seizure of Man- churia in that way, for did not America, when it in 1929 had the upper hand in Manchuria through Nanking and bribery of ChangHsueh-liang, immediately use that base to incite the Chinese militarists to attack the Soviet Union? Why is: it Manchuria, one province of many in China in which Japan claims its citizens were “menaced” by Chinese, that is occupied by Jap- anese troops? Why, if not that Manchuria lies at the frontier of the Soviet Union! Again, the high priest of Buddha reveals the motive behind all im- perialist warships and troops in China, the looting and division of China which is obstructed—not by Nanking or by Canton, the creatures of im- perialism whose subservience to American and British interests actually prepared the ground for armed invasion—but by the growing power of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Soviets. It will be these Chinese Soviets, the masses of China, and neither the League of Nations or America with its Kellogg Pact, both tools of imperialist war, who will defend and assuregthe independence of China and the integrity of its territory against ALL imperialisms. But we are obliged to the Japanese Buddhist for exposing in his appeal, the fact that the seizure of Manchuria is an advance in the im~ perialist war front against the Soviet Union, and that it meets the high disapproval of the United States, NOT merely because Japan thus shuts out American interests in Manchuria alone, but displaces America from leadership and advantage in war on the Soviet Union for seizure of Soviet Siberia. It is significant in this respect, that American imperialism avoids using the Kellogg Pact signatories against Japan, because the Soviet Union is among its signers, but prefers to attempt to get the League of Nations, Japan’s allies against America, to intervene. From this, Amer- ican workers must understand that Hoover has, first in mind, war moves against the Soviet Union, and is.contending in Manchuria for beggidet in such war, as well as for the loot in China itself. Cows, Farmers and Machine Guns HE rich farmers and big dairy companies of Iowa, haye discovered that the cows of all the small farmers haye tuberculosis. And the small farmers are discovering who owns the government, and what they pay taxes to support an army for. . ‘The rebellion of the small farmers, and the use of machine guns against them, that occurred Monday, is clearly the outgrowth of the capi- talist crisis and the efforts of monopoly capital to put the crisis burden on the toiling masses. There is an “over-production” of dairy products because city workers are unemployed and suffering wage cuts. The rich farmers and big dairy companies, together with the bankers allied with them, are de- termined to “reduce acreage” as refers to cows. And, of course, it is the cows of the small farmers which must be “reduced.” To carry out this program, the National Gnard in full battle regalia is called in to “reduce” the farmers to submission. ‘The farmers are learning the truth of the Communist assertion that, under capitalism, “science” is the servant of big capital against the masses. The tuberculin “test” is notoriously fraudulent. It proves noth- ing about the health of cows. But it frequently kills perfectly healthy cows or ruins them for production by causing abortions. But the serum manufacturers, their lobbyists in State legislatures, the big dairy firms, and a swarm of fee-hungry state veterinarians profit by it. So the small farmers are being forced to submit their cows to this “test” and have them killed or ruined WITHOUT FULL COM- PENSATION. ‘The attempt by the capitalist press to picture the heroic Iowa farm- ers as “ignorant” because they are “resisting science” is an infernal lie. ‘The small farmers know what the “test” does to the cows, but in spite of its fraudulence they still would not resist if the FULL VALUE OF COWS KILLED OR RUINED WOULD BE PAID. ‘Thus it is clear that mertial law in Iowa, with bayonet charges and” machine guns veed against these farmers, is the armed and forcible rob- bery of these small farmers for the benefit of big capitalists carried out yy the capitalist government by troops whom these farmers are taxed to support. The United Farmers League should make an issue of this outrage throughout the country, and all militant workers’ organizations should tally to the support and defense of these fighting farmers of Iowa! “soul” of imperialist | |Break Promise of Food | STATE COPS ATTACK 4000 UNEMPLOYED Savage Assault On Big Hunger Demonstra- tion, N. Kensington Many Demonstrations; More Will Follow NEW KENSINGTON, Pa., Oct. 14. |—Over 4,000 unemployed here were viciously attacked by state police, city police and the firemen while march- the city council chambers of the city council, Red Cross, American Legion, Salvation Army and Welfare Coun- cil, The attack was led by a special de- | tachment of state troopers from the New Kensington barracks. It took place right outside the National Miners Union headquarters, which is also the Unemployed Council's relief station. The police nailed boards over the corner of the office and closed it, while the fight took place outside, ‘The marchers resisted the savage armed with tear gas. This is an at- clubs on hungry men, children. One man, going to the defense of his young son who was be- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) PICKET STRUCK DRESS SHOPS \Election Rally In Gar-| ment Center Effective picketing was carried through this morning in front of the striking shops in the millinery and | |dress departments. Millinery work- | ers are striking against the firm of | Robin Hood Hats, 65 W. 39th St., formerly Duncan, where the workers | have been locked out by the boss with | the aid of the new racketeer union in the millinery trade. The strikes conducted by the dress |department against the Winfine Dress Co., 350 7th Ave., the Gloria Dress Co., 144 W. 27th St., Berman & Smith, 350 W. 35th St., where the workers have declared the shop on | strike because the boss is sending out work, are in progress, All active workers are called upon to assist the strikers on the picket- | line, Millinery Workers Meet. | A meeting of active millinery work- ers will be held tonight at the office of the union, 131 W. 28th St., right after work, where the present strike, as well as many other important problems will be discussed. Election Rally Today. A, huge Communist election rally will be held at 36th St. and 8th Ave., the heart of the garment center, ar- ranged by the needle trades Com- munist election campaign committee, today at 12 o'clock. The leaders of the Industrial Union as well as the main candidates of the Communist Party will address this meeting and | point out reasons why needle trades workers should support the Commu- nist Party in the present election campaign. Special Speakers Conference Oct. 17 NEW YORK.—A special speak- ers conference will be held this Saturday, October 17, at 4:30 p.m. Special speakers outlines on the record of betrayals of the socialist party and the ideological campaign which must be carried on in all Gistricts of the city will be given to those who attent. All sections are instructed to see that their speakers are present. Workers Correspondence is the backbone of the-revolutionary press. Build your press by writing for it about your day-to-day struggle. ing yesterday to demonstrate for im- | | mediate relief for the starving. They | were marching to a joint meeting in| |attack valiantly. Local newspapers | jralsely claim that the jobless were | tempt to justify the assault with | women..and. | | f }-er wages upon the workers, Trade Union Unity League Pledges Its Support to Lawrence Strikers |Warns That American Woolen Company Plans More Cuts; Textile Workers’ Arbitration Is Strike Breaking; Strikers Must Lead Own Struggles To the Striking Textile Workers of Lawrence: The National Committee of the Trade Union Unity League greets and endorses the yaliant strike of the 25.000 Lawrence textile workers against the wage cut. We urge the textile workers to stand solidly against this new assault upon their standards of living. The American Woolen Company and the Arlington and Pacific Mills, swollen with riches exploited from the workers, proposes to still further enrich its stock- holders, by forcing 125,000,000 men, women and chil- dren of the working class down to the starvation levels. It proposes to still further deepen the poverty and misery of the workers by mass unemployment and lower wages. This wage cut must be defeated. If not, the bosses will quickly seize the opportunity to enforce wage cuts and to drive the workers down to the $6 a week wages of the Southern textile workers. The Trade Union Unity League pledges fullest support to the workers in this fight against this wage cutting program of the bosses. The local government in Lawrence, together with the U. S. Department of Labor and the Massachusetts eevemmen show themselves again to be the in- tile bosses to crush the workers into = arrest of Murdoch, Berkman and other leaders of the National Textile Workers Union, the refusal to grant halls to the workers, and the suppression threats of the deportation against the foreign born workers and leaders, and their efforts to put across the wage cut by arbitration, are all part of the strike breaking program of the employers. UTW Betrays The A.P.L. leaders of the United Textile Workers, are the strike breaking agents of the textile mill owners. The history of the UTW for a generation has been one of betrayal of the workers’ interests. strut The UTW has bene brought into Lawrence by the | bosses as part of their preparation for enforcing low- All throygh. the textile industry, the UTW is operating as. an efficient agent of the bosses for cutting the workers’ wages. It de- feated the efforts of the workers to resist wage cuts in Danville, Allentown, Marion, Peterson, New Bed- ford, etc. } The most dangerous elements among the leader- — ship of the UTW are the so-called “progressive” wing, or the Musteites. These leaders, with the same reactionary policies as the UTW, try to just put them over by the use of radical phrases to fool the workers. In the hosiery industry, these fake progressives ac- tually proposed and were the principal instruments of the bosses for putting across the recent 30 per cent to 45 per cent wage cut. The National Textile Workers’ Union, affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League, fights for the in- terests of the workers. Throughout the textile cen- ters, it alone is leading a militant struggle against the wage cutting policy of the bosses. It was the means of defeating the speed-up program of the bosses, in the last Lawrence strike. With the sup- port of the workers, it will defeat their wage cut in this strike. Lead Your Own Strike! Workers! Stand solidly together. Take your strike movement. into your own hands. The workers them- selves must lead the.strike. Repudiate the corrupt leadership of the A. F. L., the U. T. W. who are trying to split the ranks of the workers. Form a united front of all workers, to include mem- bers of the National Textile Workers’ Union, the United Textile Workers, the American Union, the unorganized workers, and the unemployed, native born and foreign born, skilled and unskilled. Elect a rank and file strike committee from each mill. Build a general strike committee on a united front basis. Organize mass picketing at the mills. Fight against and defeat the wage cut! Demand the recognition of the united front mill committees. ight the starvation program of the bosses. Demand that the city feed the starving unemployed. Organize your own relief committees and in cooperation with the Workers International Relief, collect food and funds to help strikers’ families that are in distress. Employed and unemployed workers, stand shoulder to shoulder. No Arbitration! Fight against arbitration! Demand direct dealings with the employers, by the elected rank and file strike committees. To accept arbitration is to ac- cept the wage cut. Defend your leaders. Demand the immediate re- lease of Murdoch, and Berkman, arid all workers ar- rested for strike aotivities, Demand the right of free assembly, the right to organize, strike and pickgt! Spread the strike! Carry the strike into all other textile centers of New England. The present wage cut will affect all New England textile workers. Join the National Textile Workers’ Union. Fight to establish the N. T. W. in every mill. The fight- ing organization of the textile workers. Textile work- ers, stand together! The united front of the workers against the upited front of the mill owners, the UTW and the police terrorism, and the mill owners’ courts! NATIONAL COMMITTEE, TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE, WM. Z. FOSTER, Secretary, 2 West 15th Street, New York City. Prepare Legal Lynching As Press Howls for Blood Rich -Farmers and Maryland State Govern- ment Rush Frame-Up of Negro Farm Hand BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 14.—A mob of rich farmers of AMTER TO SPEAK AT NEEDLE MART |Red Special to Tour! Manhattan Today NEW YORK, N. Y.—Today will be Red Day in midtown Manhattan dis- trict. During the noon hour the Com- munist Election Campaign Red Spe- | Worcester County, Maryland, is threatening to lynch Jones, a 60-year-old Negro farm hand arrested by police in a brazen frame-up in connection with the killing of a rich white farmer and his wife and two daughters. ‘The accused worker was picked up® by police in Ocean City, Md., on ac- count of his having once worked for the slain farmer by whom he had | the been discharged. According to the statements in the local boss press, which are busy whip- ping up lynching sentiment against Jones, the dead. farmer bore signs of having engaged in a terrific strug- gle with the person by whom he was killed. Jones, however, has not a scratch on him and bore no signs of having been in a fight recently, However, as in Alabama, the white Soa class is not so much concerned with finding the person who killed farmer and his family as with terrorizing the Negro masses. They are therefore rushing through a frame up of the Negro farm hand rivalling in brazenness the frame-up of Willie Peterson in Birmingham, Ala. Po- lice and detectives have grilled and tortured him for an entire night in the effort to force a confession from him. For many hours Jones kept insisting on his innocence. This morn- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) cial equiped with a loud speaker will invade the millinery market at 36th Street and 6th Ave., with I. Amter, Communist candidate for Boro Pres- speaker, In the evening the Red Special will tour the midtown Manhattan dis- trict, making stops at 26th Street and 8th Ave., 39th Street and 9th Ave., 53rd Street and 9th Ave. and wind- ing up.for a final big rally at Colum- bus Circle. The speakers will be Harry Raymond, candidate for as- sembly in the 5th district, Richard Sullivan, candidate for alderman in the 5th district, and Edward Stephans, candidate for alderman in the 5th district. Sailors Here Strike to Support Walk- Out in German Ship Ports PHILADELPHIA, 1 Pa., Oct. ibe The entire crew of the German ship Holger, now in the Philadelphia port, went on strike under the leadership of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, and a strike is being prepared on another ship in support of the general marine strike in Germany. The Marine Workers Industrial Union here is also calling on Ameri- ‘can seamen and longshoremen to picket the docks to prevent scabs from being hired, and simultaneously to organize the longshoremen to strike against wage cuts. 8 8 R. R. WAGE CUTS COMING. NEW YORK—Wall Street bankers and railroad magnates definitely Wage Cuts 3 for All R. R.| Workers to Be Made Very Soon state that wage cuts are coming for 1,200,000 railroad workers The Inter- state Commerce Commission, a gov- ernment body that is supposed to deal with railroad freight rates, will be the force that the government will use to help initiate these wage cuts. Fairfax Harrison, president of the Southern Railway, at a meeting of the stockholders at Richmond, W. Va., on Tuesday, said “The time has arrived when the wages of. railroad employees must be reduced.” More definite information is given by the New York Evening Post which said that in Wall Street on Tuesday “news got around that the Interstate Commerce Commission decision when in does come will not recommend any- thing in the way of immediate in- crease in rates, but rather will advo- cate that the railroads seek relief through the medium of requesting a reduction in wages.” Commnting on this action leading directly to wage cuts on the railroad, William Russell White, financial edi- tor of the New York Evening Post, states: “Mr, Harrison's clear cut state- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) genet (CONTINUE ON PAGE "JAPANESE IMPERI IMPERIALISTS ° MOVE FOR TIGHTER HOLD "ON COLONIES IN CHINA Japanese “Pope” Appeals to Wall St for War Front Against Soviet Union as “Main Enemy” 'Bickerings in League of Nations Cover Drive for Colonial Plunder of China By Powers _ NEW YORK.—While the League of Na- tions, headed by the British and French im- his phe try to lead the masses to believe that peaceful” solution of the Manchurian war aightion 4 is bein gattempted, the sharp rivalries of Japan and the United States are growing. The Japanese imperialists continue ot spread troops throughout Manchuria. They have broken off “negotiations” with the nationalist government- | Nations they order the American imperialist representative out. In Geneva, at the League of THREE) Czech Gov't PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Oct. 14. —Besides negotiating a loan of $20,- 000,000 from French imperialism. to | strengthen its army, the Zzech mili- | tary authorities are taking active | steps to prepare for war against the | Soviet Union. They are going into the factories and registering the | workers for war. At the beginning of September the | workers of a Prague factory were | given a military questionnaire to full | out. Besides various information and | military data, every workman had to | reply to the question of whether he | had received instructions about where he had to report himself in case of | war. The questionnaire stated among | other supplementary remarks that any alteration taking place in the personal military data must be re- | ported at once to the wages office jot the factory. We see that Czecho- | | Slovakian imperialism even presses | the wages offices of the works and factories into its apparatus of mob- | ilization. Besides this, the military papers have been called in for special reg- istration during the last few days, of all workers employed in any connec- | tion with aeroplane building. This | | fact too is of paramount importance | for the organization of preparations | for war. At the railway station for Praste| all the railwaymen have been meas- | Registers Workers for Next War ried out in the cellars of large public buildings. At the present time the question of the time of military service is being discussed once more in Czechosloy- akia. The Communist Party demands that the present term of 18 months be reduced to six months, thus forc- ‘ing the bourgeoisie to advocate a 12 months military service. It rfust be added however, that in this connec- tion the aim of the bourgeoisie is the formation of a cadre army, com- bined with a mass army recruited from the general conscripts, so that the demand involves 8,000 to 9,000 new professional sergeants. Most characteristic of all for the preparations for a new war is, how- ever, a letter sent by the ministry of | war to the district offices, worded as | follow “To the district office ni ..... “In accordance with a decree is- sued by the Ministry for National defense, your district office is in- structed to have white envelopes made at once, these to have a printed red border 5 ems broad, and an inscription printed in red ‘Moblization.’ The committee of the district office is respnosible for the carrying out of this decree. For the Ministry of National Defense (Signature follows) ‘The Czech government, it is true, recently sent special delegates to the ured for masks during the last weeks, | Soviet Union, but nonetheless, it is and the fitting up of the cellars with | forcing these measures precisely in ident of Manhattan, as the main | ieee gas protective devices has been com- menced. ta ves is also ied car- | |the districts adjacent to the Soviet Union. 11 Negro cotton specialists and the Negro members of the American iet Union was met with a sharp pro- test and the cancellation by Amtorg of all reservations aboard the 8, S. Roosevelt which sailed at midnight Tuesday, Reservations for the workers had been made as usual by Amtorg offi- cials directly with the steamship company. When, however, the Ne- gro and white workers boarded the ~~ | ship, the steamship company inform- ed the delegation that the Negro workers would not be permitted to eat “with white people” in the din- ing salons. The entire delegation hotly protested at this outrageous insult and discrimination against Ne- gro workers. They were told by the company’s officials that they were still in America and that the Roose- vel was an American ship and in America Negroes are not recognized as equals. When the company per- sisted in its chauvinistic policy after the Amtorg had warned them that discrimination against the Negro workers would result in the company shifting its trade to another line, the reservations were cancelled. The U.S. Line Tries Jim 1 Crow Negro Delegates to the Soviet Union NEW YORK.—An attempt by the United States Line to jim-crow the | | ican Workers Delegation, four are nesday night on a Dutch line boat. Of the 14 members of the Amer- Negro workers: Morris Wickman, |New York seaman; Sam Langford, Workers Delegation visiting the Sov- | Gary steel worker; A. J. Lewis, steel worker of Youngstown, O., and J. W. Jones, coal miner from western Pennsylvania, The delegation will arrive in the Soviet Union in time to witness the celebration of the fourteenth anniversary of the No- vember Revolution, They will also make an extensive study of the Five Year Plan, to report back to the American working class. The dele- gation was ogganized by the Friends of the Soviet Union. The 11 Negro cotton specialists are going to Soviet Turkestan as instruc- tors and advisers in the development of the cotton growing industry. The delegation includes Charles Noe] Young, son of the late Colonel Young who was robbed of his promotion by the boss government and is said to have died of grief as a result. Others are Welton C, Curry, John W. Sut- ton, G. W. Tynes, A. M. Overyon, J. J, Roane, O. J. Golden, Frank Gordon, B. L. Hopkins, Frank Fai- son, Jr, and W. C, Avant. All are graduates of various agricultural and technical colleges, but dented oppor- tunity in capitalist America because white and Negro workers sailed Wed-]of their race, ere or pene seammesmatuminng rect ‘