The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 18, 1931, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1931 _ ’ In the clock room JAPAN AT PARIS MEET of the Quai d’Orsay, where a little more than three years ago the imperialist bandits engaged in their hypocriti- cal gesture of “outlawing” war through the Kellogg Pact these same robbers met again yesterday, this time as the League of Nations Council. As be- foré, their meeting was for the purpose of throwing dust into the eyes of the masses and to push their now matured plans for another world slaughter, aimed at the division of China, the destruction of the Soviet Un@n and the crushing of the revolutionary struggles of the home: and colonial masses against the cap-| the face of the armed occupation of italist hunger program. ‘The same sinister veil of secrecy which surrounds the secret pact be- tween Hoover and Laval, the secret notes and discussions between Stim- son and Japan, and the present visit to the United States of the fascist Foreign Secretary Grandi, shrouds the meeting of the League Council in Paris, A Paris dispatch to the New York Sun reports: “The opening public session was only a brief one, and at its conclu- sion the council members began a series of private conferences in an effort to solve the Far East prob- Jem.” League Sees U. 8. Backing Japan The leading role of the United States in the united front against the Chinese masses and the Soviet Nnion is further exposed in a Paris dispatch to the New York Evening Graphic. This dispatch is signifi- cantly headed: “U, 8S. BACKING JAPAN, LEAGUE HINT” The dispatch declares: “The position of Gen. George G. Dawes, United States Ambassador to London, who is standing by during the council sessions, remained indef- inite, although he was participating in private conferences. “League officials interpreted his absence from the council table as meaning a modification of the at- itude of the United States toward Japan, despite alleged violation of the Pact of Paris” (the Kellogg Anti-War Pact). The New York Tribune yesterday carried a dispatch from Washington, with: the following significant head: U.:S. Would Reject Boycott by League, Japan Is Assured “Utmost Support Pledged to Ge- neva Disavowed by State Depart- ment in Conference with Debuchi Japanese Ambassador to the U.S.). “Sharp Cable to Tokio Contradicted Orally. “American Attitude Viewed As Fortifying Niponese Determination to Defy Order to Quit Manchuria.” Kellogg Pact Aimed at Soviet ‘The hokum of the Wall Street gov- ernment merely standing aloof from the League Council is exposed from Washington, Tokio, Paris and London for several days preceding the con- vention of the Council. The gist of these dispatches was published in the Daily Worker. very intelligent work- er who knows that the meetings of the League Council in Paris is for the purj.se of supporting Japanese aggress\irs in Manchuria, bludgeon- ing the Chinese masses into accept-~ ance ff the imperialists’ plans for the @vision of China, and to push the wor against the Soviet Union and Yea eiéceaiful socialist construction. Werken) will remember that last year when the Soviet Union defended itself against the attacks on its ter~ ritory by white guard elements or- ganimed in Manchuria and armed by the imperialists, the United States hastily invoked the Kellogg Pact --not against aggressors but against the Soviet Union. Now, however, in Manchuria is not only not invoked against Japan, but capitalist press dispatches openly declare that the at- titude of the United States is favor- able toward its imperialist rival in the Far East. Briand Gives Notice of Attack In line with the Hoover formula on Chinese masses, Briand, chairman of the League Council, has complete- ly abandoned the pretense of oppos- ing Japanese occupation of Man- churia. In sounding: the keynote of the League Council meeting Briand yesterday declared: “The Council will continue its ef- forts to devise a solution in the un- biased and impartial spirit which it has always shown, without con- cerning itself with the hasty judg- ments on tendentious comments, and with the sole desire under the Covenant of the League of Nations of insuring that peace and justice prevail on the basis of respect for international obligations.” Divested of its hypocritical phrases, this statement gives a brutal notice to the Chinese people that they must respect the treaties forced upon them at the point of the bayonet of Jap- anese and other imperialists! Briand has “forgotten” about the demand that Japan withdraw her troops! ‘This is made clear in the following statement in a Paris dispatch to the New York Times: “In the opinion of many obser- vers the arbitration of this dispute must depend on how far China will recognize Japan’s treaty claims in orderb to obtain the evacuation of Manchurian territory.” Washington Sees “Vast Invasion Likely” As Japan interprets here treaty rights as including the right to set up puppet governments on Chinese soil, end to maintain her puppets with troops “permitted under the treaty,” evacuation of Japanese troops is a meaningless phrase. It is pur- posely used by the imperialists to deceive the masses. ‘That the withdrawal of any of the Japanese troops is not intended either by Japan or the League Council is further clearly shown in a dispatch from Washington. This dispatch re- ports that American government “ex- perts see Japan in Vast Invasion.” It indicates that Japanese reserves in Manchuria have been called to the colors, and says: “. . . It is to be expected that Japan will dispatch reinforcements to Manchuria. Today's announce~ ment in Tokyo that planes were being sent to Manchuria is consid- ered here to be the forerunner of other movements to strengthen Japan's forces in the fighting zone. “Vast invasion seems likely. “In competent expert opinion here, Japan intends to press north or west from Tsitsihar and even- tually occupy all of North Man- churia and possibly Eastern Mon- golia, The only thing that can stop the Japanese army, according to this view, is political disaffec- . tion at home, and there has been AM-DERUTRA Official Delivery Orders for “FORGSIN” Merchandise at Reasonable Prices ‘This is an itemized f w of a “TORGSIN” order obtained at order obtained at a “TORGSIN "store for $10.00. AM-DERUTRA is the only official shipping agency in U. S. A. and Canada for Soviet Russia—and the only authorized repre- sentative for “TORGSIN” Stores. By HARRY GANNES VER the historic Cumberland gap, leading in- to the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, where the pioneers fought a hardy battle against the back-breaking hillsides to wrest a living from the land, the decendants of these old ploneers are now faced with hunger, rivaling the famines that stalk through China. ‘They come up against a reign of terror which would make Mussolini envious. The industrial handbooks of Kentucky flaunt the fact that “Kentucky labor is only 1.3 per Everywhere signs read power, good water supply and plentiful Amer- In Harlan and Bell counties, the scene of the bitterest mine battles, the percent- age of “foreign labor” drops to zero. the miners claim descent from old Virginia, Ala- bama, Tennessee or Kentucky settlers. During the world war period big corporations cent foreign.” ican labor.” such as the Insull Peabody Coal Co,, States Steel, spread their coal mining operations Miners were concen- trated in company camps, and a feudal-capitalist Along came the United Mine Workers of America raking in its share of the “war wages,” fattening on the Kentucky miners through heavy initiation fees and dues. In 1927 conditions began to grow bad. Speed- up and wage cuts hit the Kentucky miners be- fore the onset of the present economic crisis, The United Mine Workers, finding the pickings grow- ing lean, abandoned the field after a strike in which the miners were betrayed in a fashion throughout these hills, regime rooted itself. they never will forget. Bosses Praise UMW This betrayal of the United Mine now that this organization has been wiped off the face of the Kentucky mountains—stands the All the company gunmen, the county officials such as Sheriff Blair and Judge D. C. “Baby” Jones swear by the They regard it—phantom though it is in the Kentucky coal fields—as one of the oper- ators best bulwarks in the struggle against the Lewis machine in good stead. UMW. National Miners Union. By 1930 the whole mass of the 18,000 miners in Bell and Harlan county had been reduced to In later articles in the Daily Worker the starvation conditions, which have , never been refuted by the coal operators or their actual starvation. servile press, will be told in detail. Several UMW misleaders, unable to keep the miners in Evarts, Kentucky, back from strike, took the usual line of heading the movement in “PLENTIFUL AMER IC order to behead it. beaten up. “cheap Most of the United thugs. “gunmen,” as there are Workers— became more arrogant, the strects alone. ‘The miners, marching un- der the American flag, protested against a whole series of vicious and round-about wage cuts of In Harlan county they don’t call them arms in the Kentucky hills. The mine guards, deputized with the right to murder legally, are not regarded as men but as “thugs.” Gun Thugs Parade Streets For days six or seven-car-loads of gun thugs paraded the streets of Evarts with machine guns jutting out of the windows, the sinister faces of the hired murderers peering out of the side cur- tains. The purpose was by this silent parading of the armed force of the coal operators to ter- rorize the miners back to work and to accept- ance of the starvation conditions. The gun thugs The Evarts Battle One day early in the summer of 1931, several carloads of gun thugs with their machine guns jutting out of the car windows drove into the outskirts of Evarts where the railroad tracks en- ter the town. A group of miners were standing the Black Mountain Coal Co. Several scabs were | their car, In response, the coal operators, co- their rifles operating with Sheriff Blair, mobilized their gun | the hill. T down ‘three The coal tire force, many men who possess terests in c dreds of mi this terror No miner was safe on and began ion. opening up was growin was growin: ranks they on the hillside. The gun thugs fired, killing the lone miner by the tree. Then the company killers got out of AN LABOR”* One was standing near a tree, Jeaned over the hoods and pointed and machine guns at the miners on ‘hey fired. The miners replied to the attempted mass murder and in self-defense shot company gun thugs. operators then mobilized their en- raiding and arresting hundreds of miners, Four hundred militiamen were sent into Harlan county to help the gun thugs institute their reign of terror, The courts got busy. Judge D, C. “Baby” Jones, with his’ heavy financial in- 0al mining companies, indicted hun- iners on framed-up murder charges. The miners throughout Harlan and Bell coun- ties, feeling the growing terror, realizing that increased as starvation drew closer, rallied to the struggle against the coal operators to flock to the National Miners Un- The struggle against starvation was now in dead earnest. Though the terror ig, the counter-attack of the miners ig by leaps and bounds. From the were building their organization to lead them in their struggle. no hint of this in reports received here.” Analyzes Strategy of Attack on Soviet. Tacitly admitting that the Japanese seizure of Manchuria and Eastern Mongolia would include the seizure of the Soviet-China owned Eastern Chinese Railway and constitute a provocation against the Soviet Union, the Washington experts express the hope that in that event “Russia’s in- tentions would become known more definitely.” They then proceed to analyze the strategic positions of the Soviet Union and Japan as follows: “,, . in» authoritative expert opinion here, there is little that Russia can do in a military way for some time, and nothing to stop the Japanese occupation of all Manchuria, Japan could quickly more than match any forces Russia could send to the Far East within the next few months and, more~ _over, would have the advantage of operating on interior mi‘ttary lines. “It is believed that Russia might delay operations until Spring, be- lieving that the Chinese forces would be effective in harrying oper- ations and that during the winter Russian forces could be built in the Far East, As an alternative, Rus- sia might not delay aggressive steps, on the theory that because of economic conditions at home Japan could not long support large forces in Manchuria, .But there is no clue in advices received here as to what Russia might do should | the Japanese forces advance fur- ther in North Manchuria.” More Anti-Soviet Lies! The anti-Soviet lies emanating }from Tokio have been silenced for the time being by the sharp note of protest of the Soviet Union to Japan. The lies still continue to be peddled by the Japanese military in the field, however, The Japanese Commander in Manchuria, General Honjo, last night handed to a New York Times correspondent the following hodge- podge of lies and assumptions: “We have no direct proof that Ma Chen-shan is getting Russian assistance, but there is much reli- able evidence that indirect aid 1s reaching him from Russian quar- ters. Quantities of arms of Rus- sian manufacture are reaching his army and he also has anti-aircratt guns and machine guns such as he never had before. “HIS METHODS AND TACTICS ARE * RUSSIAN, AND IT IS KNOWN THAT WHENEVER MA CHEN-SHAN INSPECTS HIS FRONT LINES HE IS ALWAYS ACCOMPANIED BY A _ NON- CHINESE.” (Emphasis ours, Daily Worker), “It may be that there are no Russian officers in his camp, but 1 understand that his forces include two or three thousand Chinese and Koreans who have served in the Red Army and have had Russian training.” Sharp Fighting Near Tsitsihar A Shanghai dispatch reports re- ceipt of word from Harbin of “seri- ports further movement of bombing planes to Manchuria: “Several air force detachments from the regiments stationed at Hamamatsu, Tachiari and Pingwan left early this morning for service in Manchuria, They were bound for Mukden.” Winter Clothing Issued To Japanese Troops A Mukden dispatch reports that “winter clothing was issued to the Japanese troops today and winter quarters are being prepared in all areas—indications, it was assumed, that the army command was ready for a long stay.” While the Japanese continue to conceal the number of their troops in Manchuria all reports agree that these forces are large and are being constantly reinforced. Indications are that the Chinese General Ma Chen-Shan, who expres- ses allegiance to Chang Hsueh-liang of the Nanking group of Chinese lackeys of United States imperialism, is weakening in his resistance to the Japanese, This follows a two-hour secret conference by the United States Minister at Nanking with the imperialist hangman, Chiang Kai- shek. Resistance of Chinese Masses Grows All reports agree that the resist- ance of the Chinese masses is in- {creasing in spite of the bloody terror directed against them by the Kuo- mintang traitors who are doing their best to crush the anti-Japanese movement of the masses, A Shang- hai dispatch declares that banditry (by which the imperialist bandits mean Chinese resistance to the Jap- anese invaders) continues unchecked. An instance of the anger of the Chin- ese masses is the report in a Shang- hai dispatch that four imperialist agents in Manchuria “were captured outside Hsinmin by thirty bandits, who robbed, stripped and dragged them behind horses while beating them with sticks and straps, accord- ing to Mukden reports, which add that the men eyentually were r leased.” The same dispatch reports: “Fifty Japanese soldiers, attack- ing bandits near Changchun yes- terday, were nearly annihilated when the bandits received reinfor- cements, Two Japanese were killed and many wounded. Their force was saved by the timely arrival of reinforcements,” The rising anger of the Chinese masses is forcing the evacuation of imperialist agents from many Man- churian towns. A Harbin dispatch reports: ¥ “Today's train from .Anganchi reached Harbin with three extra cars to accomodate refugees. The only four Americans in Tsitsihar left the town on advice of George Hanson, Consul Generai here.” Gives Picture of Battle Field That actual war conditions exists in Manchuria in spite of the lies of the imperialists is shown in a report by @ bourgeois journalist in the Ber- lin “Vossische Zeitung.” The writer from the sun, close to one another states: “On my return I visited the bat- tle-field of Kuangchencze. Only Japanese were allowed access, but my papers and knowledge of langu- ages helped me, so that I am the only European who has seen this horrible picture, “It was terrible. Here not only ‘police measures * have been carried out, as is always alleged; here war, real war, with all that it implies, is being waged. One does not always need two equal opponents in order to conduct a war. Here also there are not two equal opponents. But apart from this nothing else is lack- ing. I aproached nearer expecting to see corpses before me. Two Ja- panese soldiers stood with fixed bayo- nets. Suddenly something moved. It was wounded Chinese soldiers, with- out legs, with bullet wounds in the stomach and bayonet wounds in the breast. They had already been ly- ing there for 36 hours, without band- ages, without water, only with blankets over them to protect them and strictly guarded. When one of them groaned or moved one of the sentries either gave him a kick or dealt him a blow with the butt of his rifle, ‘Peaceful entry toy Man- churia.’ “The military hospitals are crowd- ed with wounded. Even the Ja- panese have now more killed and wounded than they care to admit. Nearly all the killed and wounded had bullet wounds in the abdomen or breast.” Socialists Justify All of This! This bloody rape of China is jus- tified by the Japanese socialists and by that shining light of the Second International, Emile Vandervelde in the folowing words: “True, it might be thought that those who, at the cost of milions, had constructed the network of railways which covers Manchuria had é@rv> a great work and that this conferred certain rights upon them in spite of everything.” Such as the right to murder thous sands of Chinese workers and peas- ants which the Japanese imperialists are now exercising with the full sanc- tion of all the imperialists and their stalwart defenders, the socialists! HEAR CAUGHT IN WINDING MACHINE LOWELL, Mass.— When her hair got out in the winding machine at the Ingham Worsted Co, mill, Mar- garet Brady, 23, was seriously injured and her hair torn from her head. fol Osa JUST OUT SOVIET PICTORIAL Sixty Latest Soviet Photos Bundles of 50 or over at.. 7¢ Single copy SEND YOUR ORDER Friends of Soviet Union 80 E, 11th St., New York, N, Y. Mid-West Bosses Keep Up Profits at Cost of WorkingclassStandard CHICAGO, Il—Despite all the wailing publicity broadcast about the loss of income, ete., the facts show that the whole burden of the crisis is being passed on to the working class. Profits have been the same and in some cases greater than previous years, In the Mid-West wage-cuts have been continuous, but the profits of the companies have continued, and besides those that are available in the figures there is more that is hidden, Thus profits of the International Harvester Co., a notorious speed-up and wage-slashing outfit, continue to be high. A bulletin of the Labor Research Association states as fol- lows: “Has been losing income, but is still able to cover from current income dividends paid at a rate two-thirds higher than those paid before 1929. In spite of carrying Several million dollars worth of notes from bankrupt farmers, fi- nancial writers call this one of the ‘foremost companies in strength of working capital.’ Last year it paid over $16,000,000 in dividends and added $9,034,000 to its profits.” . Sheet Calls For Killing Reds (QONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE case in the name of the defense Kentucky people say that has a “questionable” political charac- ter. Although William Burnett, whose case will be heard first, was a mem- ber of the U.M.W.A., Robsion, the U.M.W.A. attorney, failed to appear at the first hearing On the night before the first hear- ing, the coal miner, Burnett, framed up on a murder charge and facing trial for his life, found himself with- out any legal counsel, although James Price, representing the Wobbly’s Gen- eral Defense Committee, was in Pine- ville at the time and had often vis- ited Burnett in jail The I L. D represeniative, whe was in Harlan ja‘l herself on a criminal syndicalism charge, then retained for Burnett the attorney who represented him the next morning. Robsion is now clearly showing that he is acting as an agent of the coal operators. He has declared that should the “red” issue be raised against these militant miners, he will vondemn the “reds” and ask all the defendants to repudiate any “red beliefs or connections. Tied up with Robsion is Captain Ben Golden, attorney fo rthe I.W.w., who accepted fees from the Inter- national Labor Defense and then at- tempted to prevent Franklin Rey-| has been slated to argue the murder | Robsion } jalready held there. PORT KRACEVICH BIEDENKAPP Textile Strike Leaders Held on High Baal in East Boston (CONTINUED FROM PAGS ONB) says will probably be raised to $5,000. Kracevich’s bail was set at 96,008, Both the arrested workers have been taken to East Boston immigra~ tion detention station. In that sta- tion are already imprisoned, awailt- ing deportation, the Lawrence strike leaders: “Edith Berkman, Withem Murdoch and Bedros Donegain are Berkman and Murdoch are on warrants issued qur- ing the February strike in Lawrence, Berkman being Lawrence organiser of the National Textile Workers’ Union and Murdoch representing the national office of the union. They were out on bail when the October strike started, were arersted trying to speak on Lawrence Common, and at the request of the Citizens’ Com~- mittee their bail on the previous charge was revoked, openly and ad- nolds, LL.D, attorney, from enter-| mittedly to keep them out of the ing the case. Golden will be W. Bridges White, a Mt. Sterling lawyer, who is said to be an Insull utilities henchman. White, who is connected with the Kentucky Utilities Co. (Insull inter- ests) and the ©. & O, Railroad (J.P. Morgan), both operating coal mines in Harlan, will, according to Golden, select the jury which is to try Bur- nett and the Mt. Sterling defendants. In this way the coal operators will have a direct hand in even the legal defense of the cases arising from the struggle of the miners against coal company despotism. Motion has been made in the Mt. Sterling Court to remand the mur- der trials back to Harlan County, since the penniless miners cannot pay to transport witnesses 200 miles to testify in their behalf. Furthermore, editorials in the press of Mt. Sterling —to which the cases were shifted be- cause of the solidarity of the miners | with the defendants—haye been call- | ing for the death of all militant workers. “The sooner such culprits are shot at sunrise, the better off the United States would be,” says the | Mt, Sterling Gazette. “It is use- less to send men of the stripe of | the Harlan agitators to the peni- vtentiary, They would be much safer in a pine box under Six feet | of ground.” | A leaflet calling upon the miners to fight both against the frame-up | by the coal operators’ courts and the sell-out by the U.M.W.A. and the} LLW.W. is being issued to the Harlan | miners by the LL.D. The miners months ago asked the | I. L. D. to defend them in court, but Golden and Robsion, with the help | of the Harlan authorities, were able to prevent I. L. D. lawyers from en- tering the murder cases. | After having worked from the first | to secure co-operation for the best | interests of the framed-up defen- | dants the I. L. D. deciares that it} must warn all workers that the case is being handled as a sell-out, and Working with both Robsion and| October strike. Biedenkapp is a native-born Amer- |ican citizen, but such things meer. little to the U. S. Labor Department these days. Mass Protest, The workers of Lawrence are radly~ ing in mass protest against these at~ tempts at deportation and the hun- dreds arrested in the Lawrence strike. The meeting is called by the Inter- national Labor Defense, and wil] be held in Russian Hall, 287 Erving Ave., Lawrence, Nov. 19. The workers of the whole country must rally to the mass defense of |these strike leaders and miétitants, faced with deportation, and should demand also the release of Pat De-* vine, serving a year in a federal prison on a frame-up charge for his activities in the February strike in Lawrence. Dunne, Ballam Cases Filed. ‘The cases of Jahn Ballam, Lew- rence strike leader, and Bill Dunne, editor of the Daily Worker and special representative of the National | Board of the National Textile Work- ers’} Union,| have {been |fited. Both | were arrested on vagrancy charges, Ballam on the picket lines and Dunne | while merely walking down the street. Ohase had Dunne held for “investi- gation” by the immigration bureau and O’Brien had Ballam held on “suspicion of inciting to riot” ‘in speeches made. JOBLESS FAINTS OF HUNGER SYRACUSE, N. Y.—Jake Monte, 45, an unemployed worker, was found nearly unconscious from hunger in one of the building of the Warners brickyard. He is now in the county jailed charged with vagrancy. I. L. D. calls for increased, nation- wide protest agginst Harlan terror. All the other .cases,in the Harlan coal fields are being defended in court by I. L. D. attorneys. These cases involve more than a hundred miners, all members of the N. M. U., that the I. L. 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