The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 26, 1931, Page 1

» 4 J No Discrimination Against Negroes in the Distributi jaf on of Unemployment Relief: WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central y 4 Orsfa ND (Section of the Communist International) VOL. VIII, No. 257 at New York, N. Y., Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879 Ss Lawrence Workers! Demand the Right of the Streets! The Bosses Want to Drive You Off to End the Strike! | Stand Firm for This Right! Smash the ux. Wage Cuts! NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER Price 3 Cents CHINES “The Sky Is the Limit” |HUGE PICKET --- Stimson HUS answered Stimson when asked what Laval and Hoover “talk about.” Workers, therefore, should understand that—behind their backs and SECRETLY, there is far more “discussed” than is admitted in public and definitely known, We have said, and we maintain, that behind closed doors at Wash- ington, there is being discussed not "peace,” but WAR, AND THE DIVISION OF THE PLUNDER OF WAR! The N. Y. Times defines Laval’s business as “The Organization of Peace’—and “no trifling errand’—and promptly shows what it means by saying that what Laval wants is—‘“an assurance that the United States will not again stand aloof when there is a threat of war on a large scale.” Why, asks the Times, if “we” have twice “consulted” with other na- tions, should “we” not be prepared to “consult” again? And—“If we stand prepared to do these things, why refuse to pledge ourselves to do them?” Therefore a “consultative pact.” m What the Times wants is “not noble’ protests,” but “action.” And truly, alticugh there has been a careful attempt to conceal it, Laval has with him those expert professional murderers which denote “action!” ; the White House reception, together with Laval and the eight innecent-!coking advisers he “officially” is accompanied by, were no less than a dezen comman¢>rs of the French Army and Navy, headed by al Petain, who “accidentally happens” to be in America. On the American side of the “peace makers” there were numerous army and navy officials, General Pershing, Admiral Pratt and last, but not, }>>st, General McArthur, chief of staff of the U. S. army, who but r nly went about Europe, “reviewing” the French army maneuvers, avd ihcse of the French vassal states such as Jugoslavia—a nation h is openly and obviously preparing to mobilize against the Soviet Unicon! would Vv. This is “the organization of peace!” And while the Manchurian af- fe ‘s not mentioned, yet the clear agreement with Japan on the re- division of China indicates that American imperialism is at last moving toward attaining whet it has long been wishing for—AN EFFECTIVE PLOCK FROM EAST TO WEST AROUND AND AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION, and under AMERICAN leadership! This is one reason that the N. Y. Times states that the “idea of aloofness “is dimmed” now, and the Hoover administration is “less adamant” against a “consultative pact” and there is even “a kindlier fecling in the Senate.” For, states the Times in its issue of Oct. 23, what is in view is “the marriage of the Dollar and the France,” and—more: “On account of our large navy and France's powerful army, and be- cause France and America hold the major share of the world’s gold, there is a mutuality of understanding.” But revolutionary workers know that when a part of the imperialist powers approach such an ‘:understanding,” that not only does it mean an increased danger of imperialist war against the Soviet Union, but a new sharpening of rivalries among the imperialists themselves—particularly those LEFT OUT of the “understanding.” And here again we see the threat at the weaker of imperialisms, Great Britain. This is borne out by the Times’ account (from Washing- ton, take note!) that— “Laval was moved to visit the United States because France has been disturbed by several recent developments. Among these it-was said that France believes that England has been ‘playing the German game’ too much.” “Too much,” that is, considering British strength compared to other imperialisms. In fact, the British have “too much” colonies; and it is only “just” in the view of other imperialist wolves that British colonies should be whittled down to a size fitting to Britain's PRESENT strength in gun-power to hold. When Hoover answered the British call to “save Germany” it was politely but firmly mentioned that WAR DEBTS could not be scaled down because America “did not participate in sharing of colonies” dis- tributed by the victors in the last world slaughter. The historic insistence of America for more colonies, for the re-dis- tribution of colonies and markets has long been recognized by Com- munists as the driving force behind American and British rivalries— since, outside the imperialist hope of seizing SOVIET TERRITORY—and the old Brtish lion is fat with colonies. The hour for defining exactly this re-division of the colonies has ARRIVED. Also the MOST PROM- ISING imperialist grouping possible against the Soviet. , Thus the mancuvers of Stimson—not so “stupid” as reputed—in LINES PLAN INLAWRENCE Fight Attempt to Force Strikers Back By Starvation Organize Wood Mill LAWRENCE, Mass., Oct. 25.—Ten thousand leaflets were distributed here Saturday night and Sunday morning, calling the biggest of all mass meetings on Lincoln Court lot | for Sunday at 3 p. m., for the largest mass picket lines Monday at 5.30 a. m., and for masses of strikers to crowd and surround the city hall,) where the city council meets at 10 a.m. The leaflet states: \They are trying to starve us back to work by refusing the strikers’ re- lief from the City Welfare Dept. They have enough money to hire extra police to break our strike. The Engineering Department had enough money for the graft racket! They have enough of the people's money to feed the people on strike! We demand that this money shall be! used to feed the strikers’ families. “Beeause we fight for this demand and to smash the wage cut, we are denied free speech on the Common. Because the U. T. W. officials sup- port the strikebreaking moves of Governor Ely. they are given~ the Common. “This Monday at 10 a. m. every striker in Lawrence is called to come to the session of the City Council, City Hall, to hear the answer of the the Council to this proposal. Every worker and member of all unions de- mand free speech for the Rank and File Strike Committee on the Com- mon in order to: “1. Fight the wage cut. “2, Demand the feeding of all strikers’ families by the city. “3, Demand freedom of strike prisoners and the right to organize and strike.” The leaflet points out that the U. T. W. and American Textile Union Officials are now doing what Gover- nor Ely requested: At their meet- ings Friday night these two unions ratified sending of committees to meet i na three cornered conference with the employers and the Citizens’ Committee. The leaflet points out that at these secret meetings the fakers and employers will decide on the false promises by which they hope to fool the workers back to work, ‘The U. T. W. members rejected this proposition when first presented to them, but Watt of the Central Labor (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Geneva and through Washington conversations with Tokio, are aimed at a grouping of the strongest imperialist power in the Far East, Japan, the strongest in Europe, France, under AMERICAN LEADERSHIP, both for an armed intervention against the Soviet Union, and to re-divide China and otherwise force Britain to terms of a subordinate. The direction of such a grouping as trampling on British prestige is shown by the (to Japan,unusual) account by the United Press from Tokio “ on Oct. 23, saying that Japanese officials were angry at “Lord Reading’s stand at the League Council” and that of the British minister to China who “decidedly favored China,” while the Japanese were pleased at Amer- ican “sympathetic and intelligent understanding.” Thus Stimosn truly noted that, in the Laval-Hoover secret diplomacy, “The sky is the limit.” American and French imperialisms are by no means completely “agreed” except in the main aims; and an “under- standing” must be reached on exact division of the expected loot, the share Germany should be allowed if given more than the return of the Danzig Corridor (if given that!), and “guarantees” between the leading trio of imperialisms against the certain counter-moves by Britain to hag eed or into the new block on terms inaceeptable to one or more of e trio. But above and yet interwoven with these inter-imperialist jealousies and suspicions, is the COMMON AIM of these and ALL imperialisms to » DESTROY THE SOVIET UNION BEFORE THE FIVE YEAR PLAN CAN*BE COMPLETED! And here, too, not only the exact limitation of WHAT Soviet terri- tory of that which is hoped will be seized shall go to each participating imperialist, bandit, but the MILITARY FORCES AND THEIR MOVE- MENTS to do the seizing must be decided. Hence Marshal Petain, Gen- eral MacArthur and a score of experts on war at Washington! Workers! Hoover and Laval are plotting war! While cutting your wages and forcing you who are jobless to starve, billions are spent to carry out the war plans now being SECRETLY agreed on! Down with the secret agreements! Organize and strike against wage-cuts! Demand all war funds go to feed the unemployed! Defend the Soviet Union! “efend your lives! fe... League. The company had cut the wages of the workers by four to five dollars. Two girls who were agitat- ing against the cut were fired, bring- ing on the strike, At the first picket line on Saturday the youth organizer of the union was arrested. Picketing will continue at 7:30 Monday morn- by the Paper Workers! ing Paper Workers on Strike Against Wage Slash A strike of paper workers has been talled at the Bleyco Paper Co. of 226 Wooster St., ay BI (CT COMMITTEE— URGENT! All Districts are urged to send in at once the list of the Nov. 7 |meetings. The addresses of the meetings places, as well as the names of the speakers, should be given. Every town, no matter how small, where a 14th anniversary meeting will be held, must be men- tioned in the general list. The sale of special Nov. 7 lit- erature must be well organized. As yet hardly any of the districts ordered literature for the meet- ings. AGITPROP DEPT. DIS’ Ps Japanese Tools M enace Soviet-China Railway Central Soviet Government of China Issues Manifesto Attacking Japanese Occupation of Manchuria ULLETIN | The Times correspondent in Shanghai reports that the Soviet consul at Tsisihar “notified General Chang Hai-peng, who heads the inde- pendence faction near Tsisihar, that if his troops interfered with the Chinese Eastern Railway, Soviet Russia” would take action. Chang Hai Peng is an “independent” agent of the Japanese imperialists in Manchuria. The “Shanghai Times” publishes an extract from the Manifesto ussued by the Central Soviet Government of China to the workers of the whole world on the occasion of the occupation of Manchuria by the Japanese imperialists. The Manifesto states: “Immediately after the Soviet Republic of Central China had vic- toriously ended its last hard fight with the imperialist Kuomintang by defeating 300,000 well armed Kuomintang soldiers sent for the “final fight against the Communists,” the Japanese imperialists, the leaders of Eastern reaction, forcibly occupied Manchuria.” According to the Shanghai Times, the manifesto goes on to expose the Japanese imperialists who are ruthlessly carrying out their long- prepared plans to extend their domains on the Asiatic Continent at the cost of the working masses of China, The manifesto declares that the League of Nations, as the instrument of imperialism, defends in general the interests of the most powerful imperialists. These interests consist in that Japan shall consolidate its position in North China and carry out a definite part of the preparations of imperialism for a new world war, with the aid of which the tottering capitalist world wishes to make a last desperate attempt to postpone its final collapse. “The Kuomintang,” states the Manifesto, “which in the past sold itself to foreign imperialism, is preparing to sell itself again, to anni- hilate the Chinese revolution and to create the military basis for an attack on the Soviet Union.” In conclusion, the Manifesto calls upon all workers to side with the workers and peasants of China. . . * - The development in Geneva around the im- 'perialist invasion of Manchuria bring sharper and sharper into the foreground the realign- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Protest Murder of Pan- Pacific Trade Union Only Immediate World Wide Mass Protest Will Save Lives of Ruegg and His Wife Who May Be Executed At Any Moment (Cable By Inprecorr.) | SHANGHAI, Oct. 25.—Reliable sources report that a Nanking tribunal | has sentenced the Pan-Pacific Trade Union secretary, Ruegg, to death and his wife to lifelong hard labor. From the first day of the arrest it was clear that Chiang Kai Shek planned a smashing blow against the revolutionary trade union move- ment of the Far East. A campaign of lies began immediately after the arrest, Bourgeols agencies reported that the prisoners were being treated humanely and that the proceedings were normal, thereby trying to cre- ate the impression that an open trial was intended. Numerous false- hoods were spread concerning alleged finds in the prisoners’ home. Im- portant documents that were allegedly found proved clumsy forgeries intended to take the wind from the sails of the international protest of workers’ organizations, numerous prominent representatives of science, | art and literature of Europe and America. | Even certain elements of the Shanghai foreign settlements expressed fears for the lives of the prisoners. The Shanghai Evening Post son- | firms the report of Ruegg being sentenced to death. The authorities | issue no denial to this report. The character of the “trial” is shown by | the fact that the defending lawyer, Fischer, although recognized by the | powers, learned of the trial after it was over only. This Koumintang | “justice” caused indignation even among circles sympathetic to the Kuo- mintang. Brutal violence towards the Trade Union secretary and his | sick wife arouses the indignation of the whole world. If Ruegg is still | alive the only hope of saying him from the Kuomintang hangman is a powerful mass protest of the workers of the world. Calif. Bosses Postpone Action OnImperial Valley Defendants SACRAMENTO, Calif, Oct. 25.— Further exposing the capitalist policy of class vengeance against the fight- ers of the working class, the Cali- fornia State Parole Board has post- poned indefinitely its decision on the Imperial Valley cases. It has re- voked all privileges of the Imperial Valley defendants on reading matter, denying them the receipt of copies of teh Dail yWorker, Inprecorr, etc. Non a NEW YORK.—The National Office of the International Labor Defense has issued a call to workers and all working-class and sympathetic or- ganizations to protest this outrage- ous example of class vengeance and Bertrand Russell Savs He Has No Hope In Any But Soviet Way NEW YORK.—Bertrand Russell, prominent British mathematician and philosopher, on a visit here stated that capitalism was headed for rapid disintegration especially in Europe. The world today is looking to Rus- sia for a way out, Russell said in an interview. If the Soviet system proves a better one than capitalism it would prove to be of enormous propaganda value, Russell said. Commenting on the visit of Ber- nard Shaw to the Soviet Union, Rus- sell said: “I rather expected that he would like it; I, myself, have less hopes now for any other way of doing ; things.” ® I. L. D. national office sent the fol- lowing telegram of protest to Gov. James Ralph, Jr., at Sacramento, California: —“With backing of bundreds of thousands of workers and friends of labor throughout the United States, we demand immediate res- toration of all reading matter privileges to Imperial Valley case prisoners at San Quentin and Fol- som. We hold the indefinite post- ponement of decision of these men by prison board shows deliberate plot in violation of all precedents. We ask reply from you regarding teh intentions of the state govern- ment as to immediate uncondi- tional release of these prisoners; Build a workers correspondence group in. your factory, shop or to demand the immediate release of the Imperial Valley defendants. The ? < Mooney and Billings and all polit- neighborhood, Send regular letters ical prisoners in Califarnia.” to the Dally Worker, Secretary by Chiang MO. HUNGER MARCH GETS BIG SUPPORT Jail 4 On Way to State | Capital in Demand | For Relief | Push Cook Co. March Many Cities Prepare | For National March ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 25.—Six thousand workers greeted the hun- ger marchers at the city hall here as | they went on their way to the Mis- | souri state capitol at Jefferson City | to demand unemployment relief for the millions of jobless in this state. The crowd cheered the marchers and | tremendous support was given to the | Unemployment Council. One hun- dred and nine marchers left from here for Jefferson City. | A telegram from Kansas City states | that four of the hunger marchers were arrested in Sedalia, Mo. No | charges were filed against them. This is part of the governor's terror cam- paign to keep the workers from | marching to Jefferson City to pre- jsent their demands. Writing from Joplin, Mo., a worker | states: “Three thousand workers at- | tended a very spirited mass meeting | | at Market Sq. in spite of the driving | |rain and gave their endorsement to | | the Missouri state hunger march and \cheered the announcement of a na- | tional hunger march on December 7.” One hundred and thirty-three work- | | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | MOB THREATENS NEGRO CROPPER |Killed Planter in Fight | Over Crops JACKSON, Miss., Oct. 25.—Another | case of individual revolt of a Negro cropper occurred at the town of Lib- city on Oct. 22, when Kid Boy Jack- | son killed Bramlette Bates, a white planter in a fight over crops. As soon as other rich planters liv- | ing on the robbery of Negro croppers | | learned of the killing, they organized | a lynch mob to hunt down the Negro | croppet. Jackson, eluding the mob, was later arrested by a sheriff's posse. The bosses are now prepar- | ing a legal lynching for the worker who is held in the Magnolia jail. As | in the case of Orphan Jones in Snow Hill, Maryland, he is to be rushed | | through an indictment without being permitted to see counsel. In a fake | gesture of “protecting” the Negro) worker, Goy. Bilbo of Mississippi has | called out troops whose real function | will be to give a pretense of legality | to the case and intimidate the Negro | masses. A mob has formed at Lib- | erty where Jackson is to be indicted. | — & Communist Candidate Peru For President of re et aes In the recent ele the Communist Party nominated, against two capitalist candidates, each of which is a servant of im- perialism, the comrade shown above, Eduardo Quispe, a poor In- dian peasant from the village of Santiago de Pupuja, province of Puno. Comrade Quispe was the organ- izer and leader of great uprisings of the native Indians in Azangaro and Huancare, when these oppres- sed people tried to regain the land stolen from them and free them- selves from the slavery imposed on them since the Spanish conquest. The candidate which is backed by American imperi election, largely through having the _wer of government favor al- ready on his side against the can- didate backed by England; but the sincereity of the Communist Party as a leader of all oppressed, was shown to the toilers of Peru by this advancement as its chosen candidate of an oppressed native Indian militant who comes from the poorest and most robbed class of the population, Police Raid German | | Communist Offices | | On Fake Pretext | | aa wis ‘oble By Inprecorr) | BERLIN, Oct. 25—At midday a} large force of police raided the| \headquarters of the Communist | Party ransacking the place from | top to bottom. The occupation of | the building continues. Only the | printing shop is free from police. | |The bourgeois press reports that explosives were “found” in the| possession of a Communist. offi- |cial whereupon the police decided | to searph the headquarters. | SNOW HILL, Md., Oct. 25.—Trav- eling in 150 automobiles, a mob of 300 rich farmers stormed the jail here in an attempt to lynch Orphan Jones, the 50-year-old Negro farm hand who was tortured for 16 hours by state and county officials into a forced confession in connection with the murder of a rich farmer and his family. Jones has since denied all | knowledge of the crime. He was ar- | rested on “suspicion” because he had | had a quarrel with the farmer who robbed him of a day’s wages at 10 cents an hour. This is one of several lynch dem- onstrations against Jones who was railroaded through to an indicement without being permitted to consult with the attorney furnished him by | the International Labor Defense. Sev- eral attacks on Negro workers in Ber- | lin, and other Maryland towns, have | occurred as a result of the efforts of the authorities and the capitalist pa- pers to whip up lynch sentime-’ ‘Rich Farmers Storm Snow Hill Jail, Try to Lynch Negro Jones was in the city jail at Balti- more at the time of the storming of the Snow Hill jail. Warden Ernest West allowed the mob leaders to search the jail to satisfy them that the worker was not there. The ward- en, however, declines to identify any of the members of the lynch mob. Bernard Ades, I. L. D., attorney who is defending Jones, is preparing a petition for a change of venue, cit- ing the several attempts of rich Worcester county farmers to lynch Jones, as a means of terrorizing the hundreds of Negro farm hands who are held in a state of forced labor on the farms of the Eastern Shore, The LL.D. has branded the case as a frame-up, exposing the fact that Jones was not e ysically able to reac the “confes he signed after 16 hours of bruts] torture, because his glasses had be7 taken away from kim. He signed the statement ied him in an eifort to stop the iendish torture to which he was sub- dected. ply i a ; é lism won the | SOVIETS WARN OF NEW IMPERIALIST WAR ® UL.S.-FRANCE “HIDE SECRET WAR PACT |Negotiations End But Agreements Not | Revealed \Imperialists Realign | desde |Want British Colonies; Push Anti-Soviet Plan | The conferences between Hoover |and Laval have resulted thus far in | the expression by both French and | American imperialists of their main linterests and the tentative agree- ment between them on the general regrouping of the world imperialist interests, for the redistribution of | colonies and the dismemberment of | the British empire, as well as their consolidation for the attack on the Soviet Union. In a few days of negotiation the secret basis has been laid for a new world imperialist alignment and a new world war. Senator Borah issued a statement to the press which is part of the | consolidation of the various views of | the United States imperialists around | the program of Hoover. The French press saw in Borane stand the Hoover position. The New | York Evening Post reports this as | follows: “Frenchmen were inclined | to see in Mr. Borah’s broad remarks |a fairly clear indication of President Hoover's own ideas.” From Paris the New York Times reports the view | taken by Le Temps as to the Borah | statement: “Le Temps said that the senator had changed his views in that he now asked, not suppression, but | “adaptation” of the Versailles treaty, recognizing special rights of France and Belgium growing out of the war’s devastation in those coun- tries, The newspaper said he also apparently had changed his attitude toward French disarmament.” | The “special rights of France” in | Europe is the recognition of the | United States of the political su- | premacy of France in the European | front against the Soviet Union. Le | Temps points this out further in the | following: “It is important that Mr. Borah, who is teh most representative ad- vocate of the doctrine of non-in- tervention in Europe and most hos- tile to the French thesis, should nave declared yesterday that ne considers France should be free to (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | | | | | 15,000 JOIN IN _ ANTI-WAR RALLY OF COMMUNISTS ‘Parade Is Feature of | Election Campaign | NEW YORK.—Unable to keep back | the growing crowd which reached | well over 5,000 in a solid mass, the squad of cops who were sent to break | up the Communist campaign rally against the war danger at Second | Avenue and 10th St. Friday night, | did a Ithey could to intimidate the workers. For several blocks workers stood on the sidewalks listening to the ex- posure of the capitalist war prepara- tions that were broadcasted over sev=- eral loud speakers, About 500 work- ers were present before the loud speakers were set up. Then the crowd began to gather quickly. Hun- dreds listened to the speakers from windows in surrounding tenement buildings. William W, Weinstone, represent- ing the Central Committee of the Communist Party, was the main | speaker, He pointed out the grow- ing conflicts between the imperialist powers, shown by the grave crisis in Manchuria, the visit of Laval, and his | bickerings with Hoover over future war alliances. “While the c capitalists cut wages in the States, attacking the American ers, they prepare for an attack wh the workers are successfully bul