The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 26, 1931, Page 3

"> ||et2 won the right to use Oak Park (Municipal) Auditorium for a mass _ 4] Council and the East Side Unemployed Council. 4 Bronx—Hunger March to Boro Hall, Noy. 2. On Noy. 6 public hear- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1931 _ Trade Union Unity League will is- sue leaflets to the workers in their industry, and also a leaflet to be is- sued by the Communist Party, calling all workers to support the hunger march. The general leaflet for mass IN MO. GETS | distribution will be off the press by MASS SUPPORT | October 27 to be distributed through- | | out the city. — : The City Committee of the Unem- KCRARSRERD FROM SAGE ONE) {ployed Councils calls upon all work- ts signed up in ers to mobilize their full strength in prdthay behalf of the hunger march on Octo- “when told by Whidden, the speak- | ber 31 , that the purpose of the delegation Greet Foster In Youngstown. as to lay before Governor Caulfield; Sonate State e wemands for immediate cash relief} YOUNGSTOWN, ©., Oct. 25—A pri ted with cheers from the |STe%t ovation was given William Z. eng ce farmers present.” Foster, secretary of the Trade Union | vee Unity League. when he addressed an | overflow election rally here and called ‘or Mass Cook County Hunger March | : October 31. |for mass preparations for a county hunger march on November 2 in , . %—The City | : Berita pela “Gouneily | Preparation for the national hunger ing ‘Cook County March Ar- |march on December 7. p | All the Communist candidates in Tans hau ‘noeliimllin ot the this city were present. A resolution vorking class organizations, workers | W@5 enthusiastically adopted endors- ft the shops, and. the unemployed |!98 the national hunger march, which vorkers for @ county-wide hunger | Will rally thousands to present the narch on Saturday, October 31, |“¢™ands of the millions of unem- ‘The hunger march will start at | Ployed to the capitalist government IUNGER MARCH the Unemployed 1 pm. from two ends of the city | ioment. insurance aid immediae lorth: and south—and will join in) oo. veliet ss Jnion Park (Ogden and Randolph | 6.). The south side will start at «mal and Monroe, march through onroe to Loomis to Madison, Madi- son to Ogden Ave. to Union Park. (he marchers of the north side of he city will start from Wicker Park ive. to Damen, Damen to Chicago Ave, to Ashland to Union Park. The wo lines of the hunger march will x subdivided into parts with spe- dal youth and children’s sections. ‘The hunger march will assemble in Inion Park about 3 in the afternoon, where workers will assemble and will mdorse the delegation of 30, elected it the united front conference held Ontober 18, to present the demands of the Unemployed Counril to the city and county government. ‘The demands include: Appropriation by the city of Chi- zago of $75,000,000 for winter relief ‘or the unemployed and $50,000,000 by the Cook County. The money to be raised by cutting down budgets of po- lice, jails, and high salaries of the officials, and by taxation of the rich, and to be pald $150 to each unem- dloyed worker with no discrimination as to age, sex or color, and $50 to each dependent of shch an unem- ployed worker. The part-time work- ers to-receive additional funds to the ‘tle money they are making now. The demands also include: Stop- age of evictions. Free rent, gas, vlectricity, coal, and water for the unemployed: Free milk, lunches, clothing, street car fare for school children. Opening of empty build- ings, hotels, YMCA’s, YWCA’s, apart- ment houses for free use for the un- employed. For the unity of the Negro and white workers to smash Jim- Crowism, and segregation of the Ne- gro masses, against high rents for Negro workers, for the full economic, political, and social equality of the Negro workers. Abolition of the va- grancy laws, ete. These demands also inelude Unemployment Insurance. The hunger march will endorse the National Hunger March to Washing- ton, D..C., on December 7. Two hundred and ten organiza- ‘ons who participated in the united ront.conference are expected to pat- ¢ipate in this hunger march, and thousands of workers in the shops, and also the unemployed workers. Letters have been sent to hundreds of organizations; branches and block committees of the Unemployed Coun- cil ‘will mobilize workers in their neighborhoods. The unions of the Minnesota Preparations, MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. 25 throughout this territory many plans are being carried out leading to mass participation in the national hunger march on Détember 7 to Washing- ton, D, C. The following events in the mobilization of the unemployed will take place: On Monday, October 26, Duluth will have a City Hunger March, 2 p.m., at Court House Sq. On Monday, Nov. 9, St. Paul wil? hold a United Front Unemployment Conference to prepare for the City and National Hunger March. During the week of Noy. 8 to 14, Minneapolis will hold public hear- ings on unemployment at a down- town hall nightly. Nov. 20, Friday, will be the Minne- apolis City Hunger March. The Unit- ed Front Hunger March Committee, elected at the Oct. 16 conference, will issue 5,000 preliminary leaflets im- mediately. On Monday, Nov. 23, St. Paul will hold a City Hunger March at the City Hall. St. Paul, Duluth and Superior are also arranging public hearings on unemployment during the week of Nov. 8 to the 14. Superior, Wis., is making plans for a City Hunger March in the middle of November. In preparation for the National Hunger March a send-off affair will be arranged in Minneapolis on ‘Thursday night, Nov. 26, for all the delegates from Minnesota and west- ern points, and the trucks bearing the delegation will leave for Chicago Noy. 27. The United Front Hunger March Cottimittee of Minneapolis has started a financial drive to finance the March, and the Workers Inter- national Relief has started a cam- paign to get food, clothes, and blan- kets for the delegates. Detroit Public Hearings. DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 25.—There will be a public hearing to expose the misery of the unemployed men and women, youths, children of unem- ployed workers, Negro and white, will give testimony of their living condi- tions. This is preliminary to the national public hearings to be conducted from November 1 to 7 under the auspices of the Unemployed Councils for the purpose of gathering real facts as to the conditions of the Detroit workers and to be used as a basis for struggle for federal unemployment insurance. mobilization. From day to day the events will give the details of the delegates to Washington. without delay. The whole campaign will popularize these meetings. But elected at the Hanger March Conte interest, enthusiasm and militancy. Negro. \ 1. Avelia, Pa.—Committee of 31 wesent demands for relief to city government Oct. 22. | 8. Buffalo.—Unemployed Council ‘teil for immediate relief on Oct. 26 at 2 p.m. Public Hearings will be held in Buffalo on Oct. 28 and 29. The place will be announced later. if ‘\\ 9% Sacramento, Calif—After a lo _ |) meeting for relief on Oct. 25. 10. New York.—There will be a ceum, 66 E. Fourth St., Nov. 5, arran; | ings at Ambassador Hall, Third Ave., Reading, Pa.—A Hunger March to neaday, Oct. 28th. clalist” Oct. 28. Park, ALL DISTRICTS! What Are YOU Doing for the National Hunger March? DAILY EVENTS OF THE NATIONAL HUNGER MARCH On Dec. 7th there will be a national Hunger March to Washington, rallying the workers of the whole country. Widespread preparations are being made. Every worker must do his share now for this important News of unemployment activity should be sent to the Daily Worker be held responsible for the news in its territory. The Daily Worker requires answers to the following questions: i 1. Open public hearings on unemployment. ; have arranged such hearings: Chicago, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Boston, Phil- \adelphia, Cleveland, New York, Detroit, San Francisco, Seattle, New ven, Birmingham, Kansas City, St. Paul, Charlotte, N. ©. 2. How many public hearings will be held in your city? Where and when will these meetings be held? How are they being organized! Have you prepared to send in detailed reports on these public hearings? not wait until the day these meetings are arranged. The Daily Worker 3. Kansas City, Mo—The City Council Unemployed Committee, Gay for Oct. 18 to help fniance thayState Hunger March to Jefferson City on Oct. 24. What was the result? Rush in a report. 4. Duluth City Hunger March, Oct. 26, Court House Square, Press calling for violent suppression of Unemployed Council meetings. 5. Michigan.—Preliminary( march in Oakland County attacked by police and broken up after long battle. 6. Baltimore, Md.—Protest mass meeting at City Hall, Oct. 23 against sentencing to jail of four workers for blocking eviction of unemployed The unemployed will put their demands to the “so- boss-supported administration. Youngstown, Ohio—County Hunger M: Detroit—Public hearings on unemploym: Kenosha, Wis.—City Hunger March, Nov. 2. Chieago—Cook County Hunger March, Sat., Oct. 31, 2 pm., at Union ‘ Send in your order for your '|share of the million special four-page Hunger March paper! nett cmane tates ek « Daily Worker in this calendar of preparation of the march of 1,200 must be unified, Each district will The following cities Do we must have information now. rence Oct. 11 arranged a city tag Workers showing tremendous 0 from Unemployed Council will calls demonstration at City Coun- ng struggle the Unemployed Coun- public hearing at Manhattan Ly- ged by the Downtown Unemployed near Claremont Parkway. the City Hall takes place on Wed- \ h, Nov, 2, Ferry Hall, 1343 E. Ferry, . HUGE PICKET — LINES PLAN IN LAWRENCE, (CONTINUE Union and Vice President Gotman of the U. T. W. finally tricked them into accepting it. Eyen the U. T. W. officials had to | denounce the scheme proposed by Ely and the Metheune Public Forum for a secret ballot on going back to work. It has beén discovered that the head of the Metheune Forum is a certain Alfred C. Gaunt, owner of the Merrimac Mills in Metheune. | But Gorman did a little strike- | breaking even here. He declared that | if the vote were taken, “25 to 40 per cent of the strikers would yote| to go back.” Friday's unanimous vote | to stay out shows this is false. | pee 3 Sint Cheer Organizing Results | LAWRENCE, Mess., Oct. 25.—The full meeting of the United Front| Rank and File Strike Committee, at | 234 Essex St., Friday night cheered | enthusiastically the announcement | that the Wood Mill Dye House was now practically 100 per cent or ganized into the National Textile Workers Union. This is a relatively small department, only about 100 workers, but it is extremely strategic and is the largest dye house here. And it is the first department to be solidly organized. Speakers pointed out that workers in other depart- ments of this and other mills could do the same, by careful canvassing of the strikers from their rooms in the mill, and that departmental meetings could be arranged to finish up the Job. Strike ‘committee speakers de- nounced the trickery of the police department in regard to ® dance for the benefit of the strikers’ relief, which was to be held Friday night. The police on Friday revoked the permit previously given to a friendly athletic club to hold the dance. When committees went down to the| police station with strong protests, the police waited until about two hours before the dance was to start, and then granted the permit again. But there is a law in Lawrence that there must be a policeman at every public dance. The policeman who brought down the new permit simply faded away from sight, and all at- tempts to locate him, or Marshal O'Brien failed. The hall owners would not open the hall without all the formalities of law being com- plied with, and the strikers. were thus cheated out of whatever food. the money taken in at the dance would have brought. A registration of the strike com- mittee showed delegates present from many departments of the Wood Mill, and delegates also from the Wash- ington, Ayer, Arlington, Pacific Print and Stevens. The strike committee discussed the plan to divide the city into sections, with organizing crews to visit house to house in each section. It decided that the task of the week is to cover the mills with pickets, and partic- ularly draw in other language groups than the Italian, which is the main one active at present. There was discussion on the neces- sity of spreading the Picketing over @ longer period, and the strike execu- tive was left to arrange the actual details. The general opinion seemed to be that soon a division of the Picket line into shifts would be nec- essary for almost continuous picket- ing. For the present, picketing will be maintained from 5 to 10 a, m., and from 2 p. m. to late in the evening. | More members were added to the} Relief and Defense committees. One delegate from each mill was elected to go to the National Board Meeting of the National Textile Workers Union, in Providence, Sun- day, and transportation is already arranged for. There are also going as delegates, the chairmen and secre- taries of each mill committee. The strike committee voted uani- mously to send a mass delegation of strikers to the city hall, Monday, at 10 a.m. to receive the answer of the city council to its previous demand for the right to hold mass meetings on Lawrence Common. Reports from the various mills showed that, whether officially shut down or not, they are all trying to get a few scabs in, but that the number of scabs is yery small, 20 or 30 in mills that were running with 2,000 to 4,000 before the strike, . e . LAWRENCE, Mass., Oct. 25.—Hun- dreds of workers assembled Saturday afternoon on the lot at Lincoln Court and cheered the speakers who called on them to hold their ranks solid, to give the answer to the strikebreaking schemes of the bosses, the U. T. W., the governor, the police and courts and the Priest, Milanese. The main speaker, John Ballam of the Trade Union Unity League brought much applause when he explained the plot to hold @ fake vote, and scored Gor- man of the U. T. W. for stating that 40 per cent would yote to go back. The vote has been taken for three weeks now on the picket line, said Ballam, and it is not only @ vote not to go back, it is a vote that not even the company suckers, few as they are, shall go back to the mills. Ballam told how the strike had crossed all barriers of race, religion, age and sex and nationality, and predicted that with such solidarity the workers would not always have to fight on the defensive but could demand wage increases. The workers of the rest of the country will realize that this fight against the ten per cent wage cut is their fight. With A lections, and by putting back the furniture of evicted strikers and turning on gas and light when it is turned off, and by demanding the use of the Common and the funds of the city for the starving, the strike | will be won. | All speakers urged the strikers not | only to picket Monday, but to make Sunday's mass meeting a huge one, and to come down with the commit- tee of the United Front Rank and File Strike Committee Monday at 10 a. m. to the city hall to demand the Common and city relief, and freedom of the strike prisoners. | While this meeting was going on, | the stool pigeon who calls “Father” | Milanese’s meetings for him con-| ducted another, in Holy Rosary | school. This time he got a total of | twenty—no more—to come to | the | meeting. The priest expressed his discontent with this slim harvest by staying away. The workers present expressed theirs by half of them | marching out when the stool pigeon | called on them to sign up for the strikebreaking committee the priest is organizing “for Italian strikers only.” This meeting was apparently meant as a trap for Italian Organizer Ca~ puani of the United Front Rank and File Strike Committee. The day be- fore Capuani walked into Milanese’s first meeting, and exposed him so thoroughly in a speech from the floor that the whole crowd walked out. ‘Women on strike warned Capuani this time that all arrangements were made to arrest him, and he evaded the trap. | Organization goes on. Not only is a steady stream of individual ap- plications to join the National Tex- tile Workers Union pouring into the office, but Saturday about half of the Greek textile workers met, in the Greek church on Essex St., in @ pre- liminary gathering to call all of them together. There are about 100 Greek mill workers in Lawrence. The pre- liminary meeting elected three del- egates to the United Front Rank-and File Strike Committee. Saturday many children of strik- ers’ families, led by the Young Tex- | tile Pioneers members, sold the Daily | Worker on the streets of Lawrence, ices Father Milanese’s Scabbing LAWRENCE, Mass., Oct. 25,—The first attempt in this strike of the notorious Father Milanese, Italian Catholic priest to split the ranks of the strikers and interfere with re- lief, preparatory to starting a back to work movement through fake ne- gotiations with the employers, was a cotfiplete failure Friday afternoon. Milanese has @ record. In the two previous strikes he worked along these ‘same lines, in the last strike being badly exposed and discredited. But the Bish keeps Milanese right here im Lawrence, where he is ready at all-times to’do the work of the mill owners. Milanese is a prominent member of the Lawrence “Citizens Committee,” and takes part in all its strikebreaking conference. Quite suddenly Friday morning, word was passed around by Mil- anese’s agents that there would be a meeting at 2 p, m. for all Italian strikers in Holy Rosary school on Summer St. At the time it was quietly rumored that the meeting would elect a committee to go to the bosses with Milanese to compromise the strike as far as Italian workers were concerned. However, when the meeting took place, with about 250 Italian textile workers present, including a commit- tee headed by Organizer Capuani from the United Front Rank and File Strike Committee, the priest began to maneuver a little. The question of opening direct negotia- tions with the bosses was left for a later meeting. Milanese opened his meeting. with a bombastic assurance that he “would give his blood from the Italian strikers” and talked about organizing relief, for the Italian strikers only. Call for United Front A rank and file member of the United Front Rank and File Strike Committee grabbed the floor and denounced the scheme to separate the Italian strikers from the rest. | The crowd recognized Capuani and | called for him to speak, Capuani | called on all strikers to stick together and win the strike against the ten per cent wage cut, and under the leadership of the United Front Rank and File Strike Committee to win the demands against discrimination and to win the recognition of mill committees and the right to or- ganize, etc. He denounced the plan to form a separate relief committee for Italian strikers only. “If the Italians eat and the Polish strikers are starved, you will force the Poles to go back,” he said, and the crowd agreed, Another of Milanese'’s henchmen got up and began to speak against having children on the picket line, but the crowd raised a shout, “Come on, let's go picket,” and all, practi- cally every one, rushed out and left the hall, That ended that, but Mi- Janese will probably “ry again, next time with police or gunmen there. eee Benes Strikebreaking Tactics LAWRENCE, Mass,, Oct. 25.—The situation in the Lawrence strike of 25,000 wool textile workers is one in whieh every agency of employers, government, church, and reactionary unions is being used to break the strike. The tactic is first to split the strikers’ own union. the National Textile Workers Union away from the mass and isolate it, to give the control and leadership of the strike to misleaders of the United Textile Workers, and then sharpen the knife for the wage cut. ing on Lawrence Common. The meeting was protected by police. When their meeting, devoted to “left phrases” mixed with patriotic ap- peals, was over, a thousand or so formed a picket line and were led along the streets, with police clearing traffic for them. Your correspondent personally saw one policeman driving workers into the U, T. W. picket line. The line went to the Wood mill, hours after the last scab (there were made a gesture of picketing march- ing up to the only gate used ky the scabs but not across it. Meanwhile the United Front Rank and File Strike Committee had been meeting in a dingy back lot, its only platform a pile of old boards and broken furniture blocks away from the mill center. A group of six de tectives came down to that meeting, and posted themselves where they could watch. Early in the morning, 16 Young Textil ePioneers who go out at 4 a. m. and rouse the strikers for picket duty by banging on cans and pans and blowing horns, had been arrested. These young strikers and strikers’ children were held for several hours, then dismissed with warnings and threats, and police agents visited all the public schools, LAVAL-HOOVER HIDE SECRET WAR PACT (CONTINUED FROM PAGH ONED | only about 20 scabs) had left, and| 40 whatever she considers neces- sary for her security. That is a great advance on the affirmations which have been so often repeated | that France must be obliged to re- duce her armaments. “It also is not without interest that he should declare that the time for moratoriums is over and that o total settlement is neces- sary on debts and reparations, with special consideration for France and Belgium on account of their payments for reconstruction.” ‘The statement of Borah was worked Prior to the arrival of Laval to the United States, Hoover and Borah had long conferences as to the pro- gram which the United States should set forth. The Borah statement is the adoption of the Hoover plans on a proposed agreement with the | out with the co-operation of Hoover. | French imperialists. In his statement to the press Sen- ator Borah said that he was in fa- vor of “some changes in the Ver- sailles treaty.” The first change he rounded up all children known to be | sympathetic with the strike and| given them a severe lecture on “Americanism.” | During the day the United Front | Rank and File Strike Committee picket captain, Rubin Pizer. had been railroaded through on charges of “speaking without a permit” and “oreating a disturbance” and fined $30. The International Labor De- fense and Lawrence Strikers Defense Committee apnealed his case and collected $400 bail. The afternoon paners in Lawrence came out with a flaring story about Pizer being held for investigation of his citizenshin papers. The plan as detailed in the ‘press is to deprive him of his citizen- ship on false grounds that it was fraudulently obtained. and then de- port him to Poland. However, he was released late in the evening, on bail. On the same day, a Youth Organ- been pointed out to Marshal O’Brien of the police department by Or- ganizer Sylvia of the United Textile Workers, and was later ordered by the police to come up and explain herself or a warrant would be isl sued for her on a charge of “idling,” which, it seems, is a crime in Mas- sachusetts. Inspector Chase of the U. 8. Bureau of Immigration and a gang of detectives came down to the Wood mill strikers’ headquarters at 21 Haverhill St., and inquired for Stone. However, she had not been arrested up to a late hour Friday. ‘The Boston morning papers car- ried statements that Governr. Ely was goin gto address a “strict in- junction” to the strikers, and hinted that he would demand a fake ballot on accepting the ten per cent Wage cut which started the strike. The Lawrence evening papers carried an appeal by some organization, ap- parently manufactured for the pur- pose, called the Methune Public Forum. This appeal was addressed by one of the Forum's officials, Rev. E. W. A. Jenkinson, to Governor Ely and asked for a vote of the strikers by Australian ballot, on going back to work with a wage cut of ten per cent, Probably it will take a couple of days for the machinery to be arranged for stuffing the ballot boxes in this voting, but there seem to be several forces working together to get the fake vote taken, Friday night, the committeeof 11 headed by U.T.W. Vice President Gorman and President Watt of the Lawrence Central Labor Union, re- ports to a closed meeting of the U.T.W. on its visit to Boston and conference with the governor and with his board of arbitration. Here are enough of one day's hap- penings to show the line up. The strikers’ real leadership, the United Front Rank and File Strike Commit- tee, barred absolutely from its best meeting place, The Common, fights hard to expose the misleadership and police aided U.T.W. and the com- plicated maneuvers and schemes of all strikebreaking forces. It 1s build- ing organization in the mills and de- ieoding its arrested members and gathering relief. The U.T.W. and the American Textile Workers Union are given a date for a tag day by the city officials. The relief office of the ‘United Front Committee and the Workers International Relief is vis- ited by the police and subscription lists stolen. the Lincoln Court lot and Friday's meeting was especially enthusiastic, cheering Secretary Biedenkapp, Bramhall, the Communist candidate for mayor of Lawrence, and the other speakers enthusiastically. . e . Persecute Donegian. LAWRENCE, Mass., Oct. 23—One of the most atrocious cases of per- secution seen in a strike is that of Bedros’ Donegian. Donegian is a militant striker, orignally from Ar- menia, that part of Armenia which is now Soviet Armenia. Since the U. 8. government does not recognize the Soviet Union, Donegian can not be deported, and the authorities, knowing this full well, are holding him nevertheless for deportation and apparently trying to kill him mean- while, Donegian was arrested in the strike this Spring, and earned the hatrec of the local police and mill officials by refusing an ocer to turn stoo pigeon. He was arrested Oct. 7 tn thi strike and again arrested on a do- fault warrant caused by his beinc sent to answer one charge while an+ other was pending. This time th inniaration authtorities seized hir Priday was a typical day. In ad- dition to the strikebreaking attemri of the Catholic church, the United ee é . But before that, on the first arre in this strike, he was thrown tn {* insane asylum at Danvers, Mass., ¢ & warrant issued by Mashal O'Brien. nN izer of the union, Martha Stone had | ‘The meetings increase in size on], mentioned when the press asked him to be more definite was the revision of the Polish corridor. ‘The revision |of the Polish corridor is for the | purpose of aligning Germany in the anti-British and at teh same time anti-Soviet front by giving the Ger- man imperialists some change in the Polish corridor situation. It is sig- nificant that Borah, traditionally | hostile to Japanese imperialism, has} endorsed the Wall Street-Japanese agreement for the division of China by keeping still about it entirely. The capitalist press is trying to create the impression that the con- clusions arrived at in the conference | were of an economic character only. | Those conclusions that will be in- cluded in the official statements will be around “economic” questions while the definite political and military understandings that were arived at will not be reported in the official) statement. It must not be forgotten | | that in addition to French bankers, Laval also brought along the highest | French military advisers. Both im- perialists had a sufficient “technical” staff for mapping out the broadest war plans. In addition, the serious character of the agreements is shown by the fact that Laval con- | sulted his bosses in France by’ tele- phone. The capitalist press tried to represent the conflict around the question of armaments in the light that Hoover wanted general disarma- ment while the French demanded a security pact prior to disarmament. ‘The real question has been the ques- tion of hegemony over the military forces in Europe against the Soviet Union and against the revolutionary upsurge of the German masses, As the Daily Worker goes to press | the official statement of the results of the conference have not been made public yet. The United States and French press estimates of the con- ference, however, indicate what was | arrived at on the political front. The | United States has acceded to the French demand for military leader- ship in Europe while refusing on the | | Na i tnd He was held “for observation” and during over ten days of this, he was fed only half a glass of milk a day, and given @ series of injections which made him very sick, and which con- Sisted of substances the nature of which neither he nor the Interna- tional Labor Defense has been given information on. A high point in this mal-practise was a spinal punc- ture—a dangerous operation. The International Labor Defense with the Lawrence Strikers Defense Committee has forced his release from the asylum on a writ of ha- beus corpus. No sooner was this brought about, than he was re-ar- rested on the default warrant in Lawrence, and is now held in the lockup here. He is very ill. The! only possible charge against him is | a deportation charge, but that will not work. Nevertheless, he is held, and has been subjected to a highly scientific variety of torture by in- jections and spinal punctures. boss class, NAME Tools | V (CONTINUED F |ment of the imperiali |vision of the colonial 1 Japanese | press recognizes that the Manchurian situa | talist solution of it is the cent perialist interests. The Ne | Geneva states this openly: | “In many respects, as a jemphasized in their speeches today |this Far Eastern problem has be- |come the pivotal point of the world |political situation at this moment, because its effective solution has be- come essential to the approach of nearly all the great problems which the Occidental nations are now facing.” ‘The intensified attack by the Bri- tish delegates on the agreement of Japan and the United tates regard- ing the redivision of China indicates that the British imperialists realize |that the agreement around Man- churia is part of the attempt on the other hand to have its own military |forces bound in any way pact with the French imperialists. The United States bankers are willing that France should prepare the mili- tary attack on the Soviet Union but are determined that the United States military forces should be free of any entanglements for whatever | eventuality might arise in tHe imper-| ialist struggle. The reported agreements on financial field are part of the atte: on the part of both imperialists to still for a while the tremendous con- flict between them in order to speed the relegation of England to a second rate power. This is the second pillar of the Franco-American secret nego- tiations. Both imperialists realize the relatively dominant position they have attained in world finance through the suspension of the gold standard inEngland. They feel that the time has come for seizing British colonies and eliminating England en- tirely as a first class rival and com- petitor. The New York Times points out the steps which have been taken between the financial experts of France with the bankers of Wall Street and with the officials of the Federal Reserve system before Laval arrived and while the Hoover-Laval conferences hvae been going on. “Much importance is attached to the presence in Washington of M. Lacour-Gayet and M. Farnier of the Bank of France, who came to this country eight days ahead of Premier Laval. Both saw him when he reached New York and were in constitation today with Eugene Meyer, Jr., Governor of the Federal Reserve Board. “It was gathered tonight that as @ result of conversations in which M. Lacour-Gayet and M. Farnier took part, the Federal Rescrve Bank of New York will increase its discount rate to 4 per cent as a means to supporting the currencies of the two countries.” Figaro, a nationalist French paper, in commenting on the reported agreement of the French bankers not to withdraw their holdings from the United tates asks “what has France obtained in exchange?” The latest reports of the conference give the answer to this. The Hoover govern- ment speaking for the Wall Street bankers has agreed not to take the course it did in the question of the moratorium. The Hoover government agrees that the French bankers will be consulted before any further steps are taken regarding the reparations. At the time of the moratorium Hoover maneuvered the French into @ corner forcing them to agree to the the plans of the Wall Street bankers as/| an accomplished fact. GENERALS ARE AGAINST BONUS PUEBLO, Cal.—Did you notice that | General Hubbard, retired army of- ficer asked the ex-soldiers not to ask the government for any more bonus? He draws $500 a month pension. He's got his. To hell with the rest. —wW. L. B. Build a workers’ correspondence group in your factory, shop or neighborhood. Send regular letters to the Daily Worker. Nt i Page Ihree enace «| iet - China Railway OM PAGE ONED st powers for the redi- markets. The capitalist tion and er of the York Time: uping of the in »spondent fror umber Council 1 | r imperialist r jm thi: B that the ck on e other impe through to i in ist empire to di rive al con n the lo: nce that impor Great Britain has suffered on the international fir 1 field. The are determined to force Great Britain into a secondary imperialist power |by depriving it of whole sections of its colonial empires r Eric Drummond and Lord Cecil attacked the Japanese demands sharply in the League of Nations Lord Cecil was the only one who at- ta the Japs posals to those the League had offi- cially made. He pointed out despite all of the Japanese s ments about gness to withdraw they were ‘actually continuing armed invasion with more and more bombings and ott ilitary moves In order to outmaneuyer the Jap- € diplon Eric Drum- of |mond, Secre General League, rer enting British imper lism, suggested that both Japan and China pledge themselves to respect | “mutually rec ed treaties. The | Japanese, however, saw in this “suge gestion” of the British the attempt | to contest the legality of some of the ch the Japanese ime perialists ally” base their invasion of Manchuria, | ‘The Japanese has sharply stated to the Br imperialists that Britain is no longer a dominat- jing factor in the Far East and that | British statesmen have been too slow in recognizing their weakened posi- The quotes the leading Japanese papers as fol- lows: “The Tokyo how the Briti tion Nichi Nichi asks ion in South China with- out Japan's arsistance. The day is past when Britain could influence the policy of the Far East, the paper goes on, and her statesmen are blind to facts and are failing to realize that Japan is a foree which cannot be disregarded. British sup- port of Geneva’s proposal to invite an American observer is ascribed | to her desire to put pressure on Japan, “The Tokyo “Asahi criticizes Bri- tish insistence that evacuation should precede negotiation, and recalls that Britain sent troops to Shanghai without ing permis- sion and still retains a force there.” The United States delegate’ has |been in close conference ¥ the Japanese in this attack. Saturday jnight the Japanese delegate, Yoshi- zawa, and Prent Gilbe the United States delegate, had a con- |ference forover an hour and a h and refused to give out any informa- tion as to what this conference had been about. The conference was for the purpose of bringing closer the | joint attack of the Japanese and the United States against the British Empire and for the purpose of pre- paring the attack on the Soviet Union from Manchuria In order to prepare the attack on the Soviet Union the capitalist press is reporting that the Soviet Union is supplying troops loyal to Chang Hsueh Liang with arms. This is a definite attempt to take the next step after the invasion of Manchuria. thg, attack on the Soviet Union. The capitalist press points out that the determination of Japan to retain Dairen and Port Arthur is for the purpose of having “a basic line of defense in a y le «war with | Russia.” The imperialists will try to carry forward the attack on the So- | viet Union through an attack on the | Chinese Eastern Railway, in which they were unsuccessful two years ago HONOR ROLL GREETINGS We, the undersigned through the 14th anniversary edition of the DAILY WORKER, greet the workers of th U.S.S.R. on the 14th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. ‘The success of the Five-Year Plan and the advance in the economic and cultural fields have strengthened our determination to advance our own struggles against the growing attacks of the The DAILY WORKER, the Central Organ of the Communist Party, is the mass organizer of the American workers and farmers in this fight. | ADDRESS AMOUNT Dollars Cents tion, and everywhere, Cut this out, get busy, collect greetings from workers in your shop, or factory, mass organiza- Twenty-five cents and up for individuals, 81 and up for organizations. immediately to get into the November 7th edition of the Daily Worker, Mall