The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 19, 1931, Page 4

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Y, , at 50 Mast "DAIWOLK.” De Fight the Growing Lynch-Terror and Persecution of Negroes By INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE oting of W: Peterson in the county + Birmingham, A and the murder of and Edward Jackson at an un- in Cleveland, O., are the latest bloody the mounting, murderous nst the ainst the entire terror of the r oppressed Negr working-cl Peters er and ex- employed Negro 1 servicer o had been vainly trying to get into the l gover! t hospital veterans to secure s the lates victim of murder, murder of t women, Aug’ and Jer y Augus This Ne- gro shot in jail by Dent Williams, + of Augusta and Nell Williams, p attended by city and c members of the fam- ilies 0 mn Williams fi five times, two > Peterson's resence of sheriff and other capit- and one Ha alist off D Ruling Class Off The responsibility of and ord ials Responsible ‘upholders of law law and rist exposure of Peter- order—i: th son, boun s, to Williams, whom they permitted to ret nome after the shooting with a fake of “formal investigation later.” a critical condition in the Hillman hospital a threatened by a gathering lynch mob. While ti or. defense from seeing Peterson was allowed to y to torture a “confession” from him, telling him he is dying, but Peterson maintained his innocenee. The grand jury is rushing through an indictment to complete the frame-up of Peterson and clear Williams of the murderous attack Peterson’ was arrested September 24 while walking along the street. He was called over to a car in which Nell Williams, her mother, and a white man were riding through the Ne- gro section, bent upon finding a victim. The white man Streit covered Peterson with a revol- ver while Nell Williams called the police. Even the capitalist lynch press reported, “The police said the Negro appeared bewildered after his arrest and many are .puzzled that the guilty Negro should be openly walking the streets of Birmingham and that he was unarmed apd ap- parently showed no apprehension. when called to the car and questioned.” The “identification” by Nell Williams, resting solely upon Peterson’s “hat” and the glaring contradiction with her former statement that “the murderer was a Negro with straight hair who talked like an educated white man and gave them a ‘radical lecture’ before shooting”; the plain, straightforward statement and conduct of Peterson who proved that he was sick at home at the time of the murder; the past ar+ rests, murders, and brutal beatings of many Ne- gro workers; the attempt to extradite from Chi- cago two Negro workers, the Thompson brothers, whose lives were saved only by the prompt and energetic struggle of the International Labor Defense—all prove this to be another hideous lynch frame-up to let the blood of innocent Negroes and to collect the $3,300 reward offered shortly after the “society” murder by the lynch bosses and their tools. Climax of Murderous Boss Terror This frame-up and murderous lynch attack upon Peterson is the climax of a ruthless reign of terror let loose in Birmingham by the rich landlord-boss class against the Negro workers and the militant working-class organizations Jsing the “society” murder as a handy pretext and convenient cover, the bosses’ police thugs and mobs have terrorized the Negro workers, attacking them on the streets, raiding their Homes hunting for “radical papers” and sing Jing out the most militant for the most brute peatings. Three Negro workers have already been murdered, one a woman whose dead body was left on the streets. The jailing of Lowell Wakefield, southern or- ganizer of the I.L.D., and Harry Jackson, dis- trict organizer of the Communist Party, and the furious drive to destroy every bit of genuine working-class organization, clearly show this whole campaign to have nothing whatever to do with the discovery and punishment of the real murderer of the two society women, but to be in fact a most ferocious ruling-class drive of terror to crush the rising struggles of the Ne- gro toilers and of their white working-class allies. Widespread Terror Azainst All Toilers ‘The shooting of Willie Peterson and the Bir- mingham terror follows closely upon the mas- To Be Skillful and Simple in Our Agi tation on the War Danger | By V. 1. LENIN (Writion in 1915). | To a Marist the statemcnts that wars are carried on by capitalists and that they are bound up with their class interests, are abso- lute truths. A Marxist does not have to dwell on that. But when skillful agitators and pro- pagandists appear before the masses, they must, be able to explein this truth simply, without resorting to foreign words, for with us in Rus- ia, Cixeuscions very often degenerate into empty and futile quibbling. This we try to achieve in every part of the resolution. We say: in order to understand how to put an end to the war, one must find out which classes do not profit by the war. ..I repeat once more in order to reach the uneducated masses. in order to introduce this question to the uninitiated, we need interme- | diate links in the logical deelopment of our idea. The main fallacy and falsity of our popular literature on war lies in the fact that this question is being evaded, it is being passed over in silence, that the matter is represented as if there weve no c'ass struggle, as if two coun'ries hed lived peacefully ,but one attacked the eth end th need defended itself Th va mate in wile: there. 38 7i0t a shader of ob it is the way in whieh ed dy ! r ive the maccc Tf ayproached properly y represen- tative of the masses would be able to grasp the essential point; for the interests of the ruling classes are one thing, and the interests of the oppressed another, rrr oes sacre and wholesale arrests of Negro share- croppers at Camp Hill, the outrageous lynch ame-up of the nine Scottsboro boys, the at- tacks upon Negroes and white organizers of the | Trade Union Unity League at € Bes: read mob violence of the Ku Klux and other fascist bands, the increasing lynch frame-ups and lynchings | At Greensboro, S. C., a white landlord, Broadus hes, shot a Negro tenant-farmer, Will Jones, and all his five chi nm when Jones “talked pack to b r old girl was seriously wounded ng, murderous terror on the Black South, is the direct and harpest expression of American capitalist class This legal and extra legal class terror is the bloody weapon of the white, ruling-class s| masters to maintain the vile system of peonas national and racial oppression, by which these exploiters coin super-profits out of the increas- ing starvation, m: toil, and blood of the millions of enslaved Negro toilers. It is for the purpose of maintaining the whole system of landlord-capitalist. robb and exploitation un- der which millions of white worl and poor farmers are being crushed down ever more and miserable level of the doubly op- ‘0 masses. more to pressed N Cleveland Unemployed Murdered der of two unemployed ro work- ord and Edward Jackson, by the bosses’ police us in Cleveland at a demon- stration inst eviction,’ follows closely upon the shooting of Peterson. Four white and Ne- gro workers seriously wounded and scores of workers, including H. Larkin, organizational secretary jail prevented from seeing anyone. latest of the many wid tacks upon the millions of starving, jobless workers, white and black. Only a short while ago the Chicago police murdered three Negro workers while they 1 resisting the eviction of an aged, unemployed Negro woman worker, wounding and arresting scores of white and Ne- gro workers. In Warren and Youngstown, Ohio, three unemployed Negro workers were recently killed by police. And a wave of chauvinist -per- secution, police brutality and mob violence rises against the Negroes in the North (Barberton, | Minneapolis, Portland, Pittsburgh, etc.). The mu ers, John ¢ were This is the pread murderous at- | Terror Throughout Capitalist World The frame-up and shooting of Willie Peterson, the rising terror on the Black Belt of the South, the murder of Grayford and Jackson, the chau- vinist terror in the North, are part of the bloody wave of capitalist terror rising against ever section of the working-class, white and black, | native and foreign-born, throughout the U. S. and in the colonies. We witness the death frame-up of 34 white and Negro miners in Har- Jan, Ky.; the silk bosses’ murder frame-up of 5 white workers in Paterson, N. J.; the savage jail terror against Mooney, the Imperial Valley organizers, and thousands of militant workers; the drive to deport Yokinen, Serio, and the per- secution and deportation of thousands of for- eign-born workers; the bloody suppressions in | Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, the Phillippines, and otHer colonies crushed under the iron heel of the Wall Street imperialist exploiters. This murderous terror rises furiously, as the crisis deepens throughout the capitalist world, against all the toilers, to smash their unity, to plunge them deeper and deeper into the abyss | of slavery, starvation, anisery, and death. This savage capitalist terror can be met only by the | united, militant mass struggle of all the op- pressed and toiling masses. Realizing this, the white workers everywhere must fight in the fore- front of the battle against the Jim Crow lynch system of national oppression, against the whole vile capitalist terror system, shoulder to shoulder with the doubly oppressed Negro toilers ‘Unite! Protest! Struggle! The International Labor Defense calls the en- tire working-class to action against the lynch frame-up of Willie Peterson and the murder of Grayford and Jackson. We call upon all work- ers’ organizations to send protest telegrams and | resolut’ ons to sheriff Hawkins and mayor Jones at Birmingham, to governor Miller at Montgo- mery, Ala., demanding proper medical attention and the right of friends and defense to see Pet- erson; the immediate release of Peterson, the Scottsboro boys and all other victims of the | boss terror; the prompt stoppage of the whole campaign of police terror, lynch violence, and suppression of the militant workers organiza- tions; the right of the Negro toilers and white workers to organize and defend themselves. Send telegrams to mayor Marshall at Cleveland, Ohio, and governor White at Columbus, Ohio, protesting against the murder of Grayford and Jackson, demanding a halt to the terror sgainst the starving, jobless workers; the right of the workers to organize and defend themszlvos; the immediate release of Larkin and all the airested workers, We call upon all workers and sympathizers to rally in mass protest meetings and demonstra- tions, to rush funds for the defense, to build the united front, defense movement of militant mass struggle. Expose the treacherous middle-class Negro misleaders, who rushed to offer rewards in the Birmingham slave masters’ lynch hunt, the real estate sharks, who incited the murder- ous attacks upon the unemployed Megro work- ers in Chicago and Cleveland, the treachsrous jJeadership of the NAACP, which has viciously attacked the movement to say> the lives of the Scottsboro bo; taken the Jead in this sinister campaign of be of the Negro. masses into the hands of the lynch oppressor: Fight against the fascist Jim Crow labor fakers of the A. F. of L., the chauvinist officials of the “socialist” party, the liberal fakers and all the upholders of the bosses’ lynch system. Build the united front from Welow! Build the mass deiense into a mighty struggle that will halt the capitalist terror and compel the release of Peterson, the Cleveland anemployed workers, and all the class-war victims! Demand the release of Peterson and the Cleve- land workers! which 1 Fight for the immediate frecdem of the 9 in- nocent Scottehore Boys! Demand immediate release of Wrieht, Not Even convicted by the frame-up court! Roy For the right of organization and self-defense! For the release of the Harlan miners, the Pat- terson five! Free Mooney, the Imperia] Valley, all clase war prisoners! of the Communi Party, are held in | oi does the milking every day! | Against Wage Cuts By EDITH BERKMAN. | (Written in the East Boston Immigration Station.) | (YHE American Federation of Labor union of- | ficials, the citizen’s committee, with Mayc: | Landers, Peter Carr and the rest of the mill | owners’ agents are preparing a new sell-out for | the workers of Lawrence. The first thing done was to take away the right of the majority of the workers to use the “Common.” Then they decided to force upon | the workers the “so-called officials” of the American Federation of Labor. They gave them the right to use the police station and the city Common for meetings. But the workers will follow the leadership of the Red Union—the Na- | tional Textile Workers’ Union, Now the bosses, the whole bunch, got the | help of the Immigration Department, the Fed- eral Court and the police. They said: “Get Edith and Murdock out.” They haye done this as part of their drive to force the workers “back to work” with a wage cut. The answer of the workers must be, “We are out in general strike! We demand not a cent off our pay!” Comrades, organize against strike breakers! | The mill owners have united and organized a | sroup of “strike breakers” to break the solidar- | ity of the workers, The “strike breakers” are (a) Mayor Landers and his citizens’ commit- | tee; (b) Peter Carr and his police department ; and immigration department; (c) the Mill of- | ficials and their American Federation of Labor | (98 Concord St.) so-called officials who sell | every strike: (d) the American Union officials of the Pacific mills, who got the socialist lead- | ers to speak under the protection of strike | breaker Peter Carr, and who refused a month | ago to support the Central Falls strikers with relief. 1. All workers strike breakers, | 2. All workers must unite against the 10 per" cent wage cut and the taking away 1% for over- time /from those who received it before the ) strike. ~ 3. Demand the right of the National Textile Workers’ Union and the United Front Rank and File Committee to\ use the Common and the public schools for meetings. 4. Build the United Front Strike Committee, as the leader which unites all strikes of all unions. Only the Strike Committee can nego- tiate with the employers. | 5. Demand the release of all the strike pris- | oners, ; _ Never before did the Lawrence workers follow | the leadership of the strike-breaking Federation | of Labor—now too they must tell these “Sell Out Officials” that the workers will have noth- ing to do with their arbitration. This strike was not called by the A. F. of L. They opposed the strike. The National Textile Workers’ Union called the workers to strike against the wage cut. Support the United Front of the workers. | Support the N, T. W. U. Not a Cent Off Our Pay. | ‘The A. F. of L. and Citizen’s Committee put Murdoch and Edith in the Immigration Station as one of their strikebreaking measures. Work~- must organize against the | | | ers! Answer the arrest of your leaders by join- | ing the N. T. W. U. Every worker a union mem- ber. Every worker an organizer for the success of the strike! Defend Yekinen, Serio, the foreign-born work- ers! against lynehings, deportations, boss fy the jim-crow lynch system of national oppreseion! for full equality for the oppressed Ne- grocs! For their right to self-determination in | the Bleck Belt! id Build the united militant mass defense strug- gle! Join the LL.D.! . Resist the rising bloody capitalist terror! NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL 1 aa DEFENSE . SF ~thi ly. AWorker, REPU Myniet Porty Mr. THomas has a way with animals. Mrs- Thomas iT he Lawrence Strike U.S.A) ail everywhere of Manhattan and Bronx, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: year, $6; six months, $3; twe montlis. New York City. Foreign: one year, $1; excepting Boroughs $8; six months, £4.50, Ga & proudly admits he can milk a cow. In the country he (From the N. Y- World-Telegram Oct. 16, 1931.) By BURCE Against the Robber Campaign of Japanese Imperialism in China “Manifesto of the League Against Imperialism) *;VER since the millions of the peasant popu- “lation in China were drawn into the anti- mperialist struggle and the movement for na- ional emancipation found its appropriate form, provocation and intervention on the part of for- eign imperialism has become more &nd more fre- quent and unconcealed, In the course of this period, the League Against Imperialism has more than once had occasion to denounce the criminal actions of predatory imperialism before the toiling masses in the imperialist countries and the colonies. The League Against Imperial- ism, with the support of the anti-imperialist masses everywhere, has undertaken effective ac- tion in turn against the supply of arms and | munitions to the counter-revolutionary armies, against the financing of war and Chinese coun- ter-revolution for the purpose of annihilating the Red Army and the Soviet Movement, and | against the blood-thirsty acts of the white ter- ror in the imperialist concessions and else- where, etc. “Imperialism not only supports the counter- revolutionary war against the Chinese Soviet | Revolution, but the imperialists directly use their own arms and warships in an open counter- revolutionary war of intervention against the Chinese workers and peasants.” In these words the resolution of the last session of the Inter- national Executive Committee of the League characterized the atittude of the imperialists in regard to China, still more serious phase of Chinese subjection to the imperialist yoke. With Japan’s robber ac- tion in Manchuria, the imperialists have cynic- ally trodden under foot the formal acknowledge- ment of the State independence of this country, which they were content to ogpress through the intermediary of their native agents, Chiang Kai Shek and the other executioners of the toiling masses struggling for emancipation. The slow- ness of the process of so-called “pecification” and the growth of the economic crisis have im- pelled them to decide on the direct dismember- ment of this great human reservoir and on its subjection to their military yoke. * If up ‘to now the various imperialist powers have hesitated to undertake this step it is solely because they could not reach an agreement on the subject of partition. The Japanese govern- ment, speculating on the big difficulties of Eu- rope and America»in the face of the enormous economic and financial catastrophe of the recent period, and under the pressure themselves of the disturbing contraction of the outlets for Japanese industry, has not hesitated to under- take the risks of a military adventure in Man- churla. The fact that their army was able to invade the whole of the southern portion of this province without encountering the slightest re- sistance from the other imperialist powers, sim- ply shows that the latter cast an approving eye on the developments of this bandit action. They intend to utilize this precedent in order to seize profitable compensation for themselves by the same methods of violence and plunder. It can well be understood that, once embarked on this course, each one of the imperialist rivals will desire to secure the biggest portion for itself, and thus the antagorfisms’ between them will under- go a further intensification and bring about new conflicts. ; What is it that induces the imperialists to have recourse to this radical solution of the Chinese question? It is the failure of their policy ‘of maintaining China in its position of semi- colony and of exploiting at their ease the hun- dreds of millions of the starving population kept. subservient to the rule of the feudalists and the big national bourgeoisie, The Nanking government, which is supposed to represent officially the interests of» China. and which in reglity is nothing but a toy in the hands of the imperialists, finds itself put in 9 ridiculous situation, In agreement with the dis- sident national government of Canton, which on this point has made common cause with it, it has found no better course than to turn to the League of Nations, the League of the im- | ‘Today we have arrived ai a. perialists themselves, This organization of colo- nial powers has on this occasion once more *re- vealed itself as an instrument of. the imperialist organizations for intervention and annexation. It has only been able to adopt a decision which | defers to the susceptibilities of Japanese im- | perialism and which consequently constitutes an encouragement to the latter to extend their oc- | clipation without being able to offer to the Chi- nese in their distress anything’ more than ‘a re- commendation to negotiate directly with their aggressors. ty patriotic phrases of the Kuomintang led by the executioners of the Chinese toiling: masses, but the revolutionary action of: these masses themselves and of the anti-imperialist forces in all countries, and the continual energetic pres- | sure of the oppressed peoples throughout the world, which will compel Japan to give up the attempt to impose its yoke on the population of Manchuria and will force them to withdraw their army of occupation. — | It is not these recommendations, nor the emp- | | The invasion of Manchuria by Japan is not merely an act of banditry against the indepen- dence of the Chinese people. It is also directed against the Soviet Union.. It is a new’ step in the preparation for an, imperialist war: against the country which is building up Socialism, the sincere and thorough-going supporter of the national movements for emancipation’ in the colonies and subject nationalities. Thiis the im- perialists and enerhies of the U.S.S.R.-are at- tempting to consolidate and reinforce the front of their attacking position. In order to disguise the character of the Japanese aggression, the international imperialist press has spread the false news that there exists an entente between Japan and the Soviet Union with regard to the occupation of Manchuria, That is nothing but a lie and a base calumny. The proletariat, which has ruling power in the U.S.S.R., as well as the toiling masses in every country, are al- together solid with the oppressed masses of China in opposition to the imperialist invaders and the regime of violence and terror of the Kuomintang. ‘The League Against Imperialism, in the name of the anti-imperialist masses and organizations throughout the world, voices its most emphatic protest against the robber actions of Japanese imperialism in Manchuria. It calls upon these masses to compel Japan to evacuate the invaded territories by supporting the demonstrations and protest meetings organized by the sections and affiliated and sympathizing organizations of the League, and by giving their active support to the anti-imperialist campaign. { International Secretariat of the League Against Imperialism THE GROWING ANTAGONISM OF INTERESTS BETWEEN THE IM- PERIALISTS INCREASES THE DAN- GER OF WAR AGAINST THE U.S.S.R- The effort of capitalism to solve the crisis \ at the expense of the proletariat and the work- ing peasants of all countries is leading to a general capitalist offensive on all fronts against the toiling masses of the capitalist countries and simultaneously and inseparably linked up with it, to the acceleration of war preparations against the U.S.S.R. ‘The growing world economic crisis and the struggle among the ‘imperialist powers for markets intensify all imperialist antagonisms and cause them to become exceptionally acute. ‘The donger of armed conflicts between the im- | perialist powers is growing. But the growing |antagonism of interests between the imperial- ists does not diminish, but, on the contrary, in- creases the danger of a war of intervention against the U.S.S.R. my (From the Resolution of the XI Plent on the War Danger.) i m 1een ——__] No Hari-Kari Here The commander of the rank and fi f had assembled all ranks for a serious commie, in view of the condition known as an “unhappy situation.” For an hour he held forth and spared no word of gloom: “We have failed in so-and-so.” “We did not accomplish this-and-that.” “We neglected such-and-such.” “We didn’t even try . . .” And so on; until his hearers stood aghast at this self-immolation. If he were a Japanese general, though! of his loyal followers, we could eipect ta draw his short sword and disembowel himself here before our eyes. But he was NOT a Japanese general, did NOT draw any short sword add tant Gane kari. On the contrary, when he had finished, he drew from his pocket only a big handkerchief, mopped his brow and sat dawn awaiting ap- plause, Six Out of Ten Children Starving! Don’t; take our word for it. ‘The statement is made by that despicable organization that calls itself the “New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor’—and seeing that they remain poor. It says, in a circular a worker sent us that: A large number of children from a crowded tenement neighborhood where unemployment has been acute for over a year, are being examined. An alarming situation is disclosed. Six out of every ten children are suffering from malnutrition.” . Malnutrition is a pelite word for starvation. More, the circular shows that starvation” has always been present among these poor children. but that now it is widespread. It says: “In 1929, 18.7 per cent of all children ex- amined were diagnosed ‘malnutrition,; in 1930 the number had increased to 25.9 per cent and in 1931 it is 60 per cent. The same situation is found to exist in other districts of Man- hatten and the Bronx.” Now, then what to do about it? Higher wages for those workers who have a job? Unemploy- ment insurance for the jobless? Not on your life! ‘The capitalist “charity” peddlers who run the “Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor” would never, never advocate such “Bol- shevism”! All they say is that rich should give a few dollars to them to finance “fresh' {air camps.” ys the And what does the Department of Health of the “Empire State” of New York do eout it. Not one damned thing! But—wait a minute, It DID do something . . . if At the cost of the State, it printed a fancy looking folder recently, dated at Albany and signed by Thomas Parran, Commissioner of Health, and gave these to the Borden Milk | Trust to distribute to housewives and to the children in schools supplied by the Borden com~ pany, “The present decrease in the per capita consumption of milk’ and milk products in families, due to curtailed income, is viewed with grave concern by health authorities, who fear that there may be a consequent impair- ment of health.” “crne rest of it simply urges people to buy more milk. But—this scoundrel of a Health Com- missioner has nothing to say about the robber price charged for milk by the Trust he gives this free advertising to. This trust, in the schools, sells milk to children at 5 cents a half pint, or TWENTY CENTS A QUART! Milk that cost it not more than FOUR CENTS! ‘With 60 per cent of the children of the poor suffering ‘from starvation, the burning question is CHEAPER MILK in the stores; and FREE MILK in the schools! Don’t allow the Milk Trust, the World-Telegram or any simple minded folks confused by them, to sidetrack the issue into chatter about “pure” vs. “impure” or “loose” versus “bottled”! That NeSt of Snakes ‘We mentioned recently a nest of sriakes that goes under the names of the “Brotherhood of Russian Truth,” with secret political headquar- ters in New York and another office at Hartford, Conn., though we're not supposed to know about that, either. In their program put out to the public, they only hint at their “methods,” saying that it is “no picnic” and that it is “dangerous” and ‘so on. But in a recent “strictly confidential” letter to their members, these plotters of assassination and mass murder of the Russian workers (yes, and the American workers who are there helping the Five-Year Plan) spoke up brazenly, The “Brotherhood of Russian Truth” aims, it says: “To cause trouble to the Soviets wherever possible, to organize acts of terror against the Commissars and the unrepentent Communists, to unite all men ready to fight into secret fighting units, to provoke mutiny in the ranks of the Red Army, and finally to bring about a general armed upheaval.” a. ‘The Hoover government is sheltering and ever’ inviting these plotters and assassins, and matn- tains carefully covered connections with them, though the fact that Stimson’s sister is one of their chief financial backers has been exposed in the Daily Worker. With Stimson’s permission, no less than Arch- | duke Cyril Vladimirovitch, who claims to be Czar of Russia, a cousin of Nicholas the Bloody, is making a.secret trip to America to conifer with the lesser snakes already here, and confidential agents of “our” government, no doubt, to map out plans for war on the Soviet Union and the re-establishment of capitalism under this “czar” Cyril. : ‘The confidential letter sent out by the “Broth- erhood” to its members, states that certain mon- archists have already been named for office in the government they hope to establish when the Soviets are destroyed. It also cautions that the “Brotherhood” don't participate openly in Am- erica in the anti-Communist campaign (evidently leaving that. to the “socialists” the A. F..of L. and other native reactionaries), because, says the letter, so as not “to render the life of Russian exiles more: difficult.” But it is our guess that when the American workers get wise to this nest of makes that 1s hiding among them, they will mal them plenty, Ne anata eae i ‘The first paragraph reading: 5 terse sasrammemmmn a EA