The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 7, 1931, Page 4

Page Fou? sth ° Comprodaily Publishier €e, Ine do mail all N. ¥ ty, 3 Telephons ALgonquin 4-1956. checks to the Cable daily except Sunday, at 60 Kast Daily Worker, 50 Hast 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. “DA! OkK ¥\Dail a THE IMPERIALIST THE CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY By YOBE yer Litymov's Note, which complained of s of the Japanese and d them, once again reminds proletariat how near is the of a war against the Soviet Union in the The battle of Tsitsihar, which reminds eat, battles in the world war and has on for some days, the Japanese at- to place the dethroned emperor of China n his throne, the concentration of large of troops along the Chinese-Eastern rail- re accompanied by lies and provocative aracteristic of war-mongers, regard- irce of which there can be no doubt purpose of which is quite obvious, hame- 1d a pretext, no matter how flimsy, in } to launch an attack against the 1 Soviet. Union. n that Japan’s chief mission in Man- he subsequent conquest of North ch the Manchurian war is to be cs in the extermination e idea of the anti-Communist the Powers against the Chinese g people, is coming more and ont, This is expressed in the Japanese military clique, nperialist newspapers of ining a barrage of lies to the General Ma, is receiving subventions ne Soviet government, that the Chinese oops are being supplied with Soviet munitions, n the fact that the ideological prepar- x war is being more and more carried on e of “Crusade against Bolshevism.” nt being carried on by the mil- vspapers is simply dis- 1 journalists or by social im- who deliberately aim at r action, as simply “irrelevant the reactionary and military nendous practical influence on The assertion of General ‘Revue Militaire Francaise,” ago pointed out that the Powers must be set up against 1a, as “Japan is threatened just as England is in India, the n the Philippines, France in Indo- E d in Indonesia”; the welcome ie London correspondent of the “Mor- he Japanese Ambassador Yoshi- e world must be grateful to in the Far East,” the demand Mackieviecz group that Po- use of the Japanese fights now that the Soviet Union, ‘e the intervention-wars of the white troops, would be foundations—to commence Jar East. = = orker’ Party USA WAR ON military operations against the Bolshevist dan- ger, ie. against the Soviet Union — all these statements and utterances emanating from vari- ous countries of reaction are much more than the usual incitement of the imperialist agents. ‘They are, at the moment of the battle of Tsit- sihar and the threat to Harbin, an expression of a particularly dangerous incitement, which reckons on immediate success. ‘The Japanese rule in South Manchuria, which is to be sanctioned by the meeting of the League of Nations which has just commenced, forms the prerequisite for the advance to the Chinese East- ern Railway, and further to a threat to Soviet territory. According to the “Times” of 14 No- vember, the only thing which is requested of Japan is that the League of Nations be allowed the right to participate in the police measures which will be adopted by Japan. That Japan must remain in Manchuria is an accepted fact for the imperialists of the European countries. The Kuomintang will once again have to play the role of imperialist agent; in fact this factor no longer forms part of the discussions of the imperialists, so certain are the real masters of the Kuomintang clique that Chaing Kai-shek’s people will do everything demanded of them as soon as they receive orders from the imperialists. On the other hand, the progress of the Chin- ese Soviets is becoming a threat to the impe- rialists. At the commencement of November, the consular reports from Central China stated that “the position of the Chinese Soviets has become stronger than ever.” “Kiangsi is almost entirely under Communist control, and Hunan will Soon be in the same position.” The impatience to ( partition China as quickly as possible, to carry out as soon as possible the attack on the Soviet Union, is to a great extent explained by the im- perialists’ fear of this new historical factor, the Chinese Soviets, which are coming more and more to the forefront. In such a tense situation, which is becoming more and more dangerous every day, underes- timation of the Manchurian war and lack of concrete action by the proletariat against she danger of intervention would mean strengthen- ing the imperialist position. The numerous | workers’ delegations who in the Soviet Union have seen with their own eyes the tremendous success of the Five-Year Plan, who have seen the proletarian dictatorship in practice, who bring to the proletarians of all countries tidings of a new world, must help to mobilize the masses to defend the Soviet Union. The proletarian | masses must react more sharply than ever to the | Japanese robber-campaign against the Chinese working masses, to the threat of war on the Soviet Union. The counter-revolutionary inter- vention threat of the imperialist robbers must | be answered by the fight of the revolutionary ‘The Political Situation in Germany By L, BREUER (Berlin) aking place in the ‘The na- ‘The elec- Hessian Diet have resulted in the ists doubling their vote at the cost ali the bourgeois parties. Tie Communists in- reased their vote by 27 per cent, whilst the social vote declined by 25 per cent. The which is being discussed in Ger- is: Will it come to a Bruening- ex alliance? Since the Harzburg Conference of. the national opposition, a number of things have occurred which render it quite clear that Centre is prepared to allow the national so- to enter the Reichs government, if it thereby be possible politically to disarm ational opposition and at the same time eginen the arm of the executive power ot hitler’s interview with Hindenburg General Schleicher, General , end at the same time influential general in Ger- eyents the political importance of ich must be clearly recognized. g served to emphasize the negotiations bewteen the pal fascism, it was social democratic Reich- Rreitscheid in Darmstadt on p of the Gei ons to the Reich and + t to rand most iess of these lent and &he of tag deputy Herr f the Tessian elections. The threat, e by t l-democratic fraction leader to « ue the policy of tolerating Bruening if t Yon his part, did not put an end to ‘or of the fascists, the surprising overtures ve Communist Party and the declaration social democracy would op a prohibition of the C.P, of Germany, all of course, was not due to mere chance. It s obvious that the social democratic party lead- already well informed regarding the con- the negotiations between the Reichs and the fascist headquarters in Mun The social democratic party leaders are trembling for their positions. ‘The more they lose their mass following the less indispensable they become to the ruling class. The social de- no ‘e in a tight corner. Their veiled offer of an alliance to the Communist Party is only ari expression of their helplessness. By means of a single speech, the German workers are to be made to forget that it was the social demo- cratic leaders who since the days of the revo- Jution prepared the way for fascism, when they gave Groener and Schleicher, the leaders of the Freicorps, a free hand to crush the revolution. .Workers! Join the Party of. Your Class! P.O Box 87 Station D. New York City. Please send me more information on the Com~ munist Party. ers are tent of Ministry NEMO ...veceesceeececcceues vesereeoeesosecsosoo AGATOSR cccossereecnreceeuaseceensesneeseneeece cry iy: COE ks Occupation ...c...+ Communist Party U. 6. A. . Age - Se Sse ne eee | P.O, Box a Ration Dy ew ick Qty, \ Now, when they are beginning to reap the fruits of their policy, the social democratic leaders wish in good time to take their place in the new uni- ted front against fascism which is being set by the Communist and the social democratic work- ers. But the German workers have not forgot- ten the Noskes, and will not grant 2n amnesty, to the Noskes. They will know how to prevent from taking place the same tragedy which oc- curred 13 years ago, when the social democratic leaders cowardly betrayed them and stabbed them in the back, Long before Herr Breitscheid delivered his | speech, months ago, thousands of social demo- cratic workers found their way to the Commu- nist Party. Already four weeks ago the Commu- nist Party addressed an appeal to all workers for the formation of the red united front against fascism, against wage cuts, against the Bruening government and for the deferise of the Soviet | Union. ‘The appeal met with a tremendous re- sponse. Even if the social democratic leaders are in deadly fear of fascism, their fear of the re- volution is still greater. They wish to place them- selves again at the head of an elementary move- ment of the people, which is this time directed against fascism, in order to throttle the move- ment before it reaches tts highest point, just as | Mbert throttled the strike of the munition workers in 1918. The Communis Party has given the only cor- rect reply to this offer of alhanee: With your leaders, never! With your maases, always and at any time. Self-defense organizations in the factories, closest unity of all proletarains, de- | fensive mass fight against fascist terrorism, de- fensive action against every attempted attacl. ‘The economic situation is becoming steadily . worss; unemployment is growing: the workers are becoming increasingly revolutionized; the social democracy, hitherto the strongest party in Germany, is losing ever larger masses of follow- ere; the Bruening government is maneuvering and is now looking éut for new allies in order to continue its policy in the next few months. All the hopes of the bourgeoisie, both in regard to economic policy and toreign policy, are con- centrated on French finance capital, to which it has already capitulated in principle. It is now only a question of Germany’s wishes and France's conditions. Whilst these negotiations are going on behind the scenes, remarkable events are taking place on another foreign political front of the bourgeoisie. The Russo-German negotiations make no progress. Why? Germany is creating difficulties. Certain industrial circles are ex- erting pressure on the government not to grant an extension of credits demanded by the Soviet Union. At the same time negotiations are being _ SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Ate, Sy mail everywhere: One your, $6; six months, §3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs ef Manhatten sud Bronx, New York City. Foreign: one year, $8; six “months, $4.50. conducted on the same basis with French in- dustrial circles, which give at least the German heavy industry hope that a portion of their exports to the Soviet Union would be taken over by the French. This shows how closely eon- nected the Franco-German negotiations are with the question of German-Soviet relations In Germany we are faced with great decisions. ‘The Gerthan proletariat, rooted in tts revotution- ary traditions and steeled in the fights of the past years, is af the end of its patience. It re- quires only a little thing to let loove the revolu- tionary flood that will fundamentally change the countenance of Germany and render free the way to the social and national emancipation of all sections of the working populstion under the hegemony of the proletariat and under the lead- tity of the Comormins Posty ef Germany. THE FIGHT FOR ORPHAN JONES This is the third and last of a series of three articles on the history of the vicious death frame-up against 60-year-old Negro farm hand, Orphan Jones—a frame-up brazen in its sav- age torture of the worker by the police in order to extort a “confession,” open denial by the courts and the governor of Maryland of the simplest constitutional rights such ‘as the right to select his attorney; followed by open lynch incitements by leading officials of the State and of the County of Worcester; with an at- tempt to lynch the lawyers of the defendant and two investigators sent to Snow Hill by the International Labor Defense, an attempt by the court to force the I. L. D. attorney out of the case and finally insistence by the court of bringing Jones to trial on Dec. 8 in Cam- bridge on the Eastern Shore, where armed lynch gangs of rich farmers have been hunt- ing Negro workers for days, searching the jails for Negro prisoners. re ae By BILL BRENT, (Part 11¥!—Conclusion.) Haba vich farmers and storekeepers on the Eastern Shore were determined to lynch Orphan Jones in order to show the workers there that it doesn’t, pay to stand up for their rights. Governor Ritchie was equally determined | to lynch Jones but he insists that it must be a legal lynching; that is that there must first be a trial before a jury of rich farmers and business men who will of course find Jones guilty and with a rich lawyer “defending” Jones so that, the lawyer will be on the bosses’ side and not, investigate the case. Jones was removed to Cambridge. Invade Jail in Hunt For Jones. ‘The Snow Hill bosses thought Jones was in Snow Hill so they surrounded the jail and broke in and searched it for Jones. But he was not there. A few days later they heard that Jones was in Cambridge so the mob started for there but Jones was then quickly taken to Baltimore where he has been ever since. Still there were new rumors that Jones was in the Snow Hill jail and the mob broke in again and searched it once more for Jones. Although these mobs have been on the Hastern Shore now for more than a month Governor Ritchie has done noth- ing about it because the mob leaders are his friends. The sheriff of the county knows who the mob leaders are but he doesn’t arrest any- body because he is just a tool of the bosses who are in the mob. The state’s attorney who has to have anybody who joins a mob ar- doesn’t have this mob arrested because are in his class, the boss class. He only workers arrested and epecially workers who stand up for their rights. And of course the Mayor of Snow Hill doesn’t want the mob lead- ers to be arrested because he himself is the chief leader of the mob. NAACP in Usual Role of Betrayal. ‘The boss officials had to think quickly. They wanted to hang Jones but they also wanted to quiet the workers who were protesting about what was being done. So, although they wouldn't let the I. L. D. lawyer see Jones they did let the lawyer for the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People see Jones. This association is a boss class organization which is interested in exploiting and oppressing working class Negroes just as white bosses exploit all workers. The NAACP lawyer, Jesiah Henry, i case because they didn’t have enough money to handle it and blamed the Negro workers for not keeping the NAACP well supplied with money. But they didn’t explain and they can’t explain why they announced that Jones was guilty just because they didn’t have enough money to fight the case. After the workers saw what kind of tricks the NAACP plays on them and that it is really a boss class organization just like the courts are, it was necessary for the officials to try something else. They there- fore decided to scare the I. L. D. out of the case. That is why they arranged the mob at- tack on the lawyer and investigators. ‘ Gov. Ritchie Denies Protection. When the International Labor Defense branch in Baltimore heard that the mob had sur- rounded the Court House in Snow Hill and was beating up the I. L. D. lawyer and investigators they telegraphed Governor Ritchie and demand- ed protection. But the Governor said that he didn't have anybody to send down there. This was a lie because later on when the Interna- tional Labor Defense exposed this situation and began to tell all the workers about it, Governor Ritchie became afraid of the publicity and quickly got together 25 state police and 200 Na- tional Guards with machine guns ,bayonets and gas bombs as a fake gesture of protecting Jones and the I. L. D.-lawyer. Well, of course, in all of the excitement Jones had not yet been put on trial and that would lave to be done sooner or later. So the I. L. D. asked Governor Ritchie what he was going to do about protecting the I. L. D. lawyer who would have to go back to the Eastern Shore to defend Jones. Governor Ritchie said that he wasn't going to do anything and that the I. L. D. lawyer had no business going back, that the Court had appointed a very good lawyer to de- fend Jones. You see they wanted to frighten the lawyer out of the case by refusing to protect him from the lynch mob. But in order to make sure that he couldn’t do any good even if he came and wasn’t lynched they wouldn't let him course, the lawyer couldn't find out from Jones where he had been when the murder was com- mitted and couldn't get any witnesses together. So the lawyer filed a petition in the Baltimore City Court asking the judge there to compel the warden of the jail to let him see Jones. Lawyers Alone Cau’t Deferd Jones, When the boss class violates the law, when they want to railroad workers to jail and to the electric chair, then lawyers and laws alone are useless because the bosses who made the laws don’t hesitate to break them. But the workers still have the best defense in the world. And that defense is organized protest on a mass scale. So the members of the International Labor Defense went out on street corners and from soap boxes they explained to the workers how the frame-up of the nine innocent Scotts- boro boys was being repeated in Maryland with the assistance of Governor Ritchie. They went into churches and spoke to the congregations about the legal lynching of Orphan Jones that the boss class courts were about to arrange with the assistance of the Governor. They went into labor union meetings and into meetings of the unemployed councils and told the workers what the bosses were doing to Orphan Jones and what would be done to them next. Workers Flood Governor With Protests. ‘The International Labor Defense has branches all over the United States and the branches in Washington and Philadelphia did the same thing there that the Baltimore branch was doing. And these meetings of workers sent telegrams of pro- test to Governor Ritchie. Mass meetings of white and Negro workers were called and reso- | lutions of protest against the frame-up and legal lynching of Orphan Jones were adopted and sent. to Governor Ritchie, Workers, no power In the world can withstand the organized might of the working class! When political advisor, the attorney general of the state, to the trial, and the assistant attorney general and the City Solicitor of Baltimore. And they didn’t come there then to prevent the I. L. D. lawyer from seeing Jones, because when the Governor saw what kind of a fight the workers were putting up he was afraid and sent the at- torney general and his assistant and the City Solicitor into Court to find a way to let the I. L. D. lawyer se® Jones without having to admit that they were wrong. So they said that they were perfectly willing that Jones should have the I. L. D. lawyer for his lawyer if only Jones would say that he wanted him. Of course they knew, what Jones would say so they brought Jones into Court and asked him and Jones said yes, he wanted the I. L. D. lawyer for his lawyer and always h-4 wanted him, but that the war- den and the state’s attorney wouldn’t let the I. L. D. lawyer in to see him, So now Jones is being defended by a working class lawyer. But this is not the end of the case. The case is still supposed to be tried be- fore Judge Bailey in Cambridge. And of course Judge Bailey will never let that case get out of his hands if he can help it. He wants to sen- tence Jones to hang. He wants to be sure that it is done. He wants to keep the lid tight down on the story of corruption and graft on.the Eastern Shore that resulted in the death of Jones’ boss. And he wants to show the white and Negro workers that there is no use in or- ganizing together, that the police and the boss courts win anyway. Only Working Class Can Free Jones. The I. L. D. lawyer has. now filed a new petition in the case demanding that the case be moved from Cambridge to Baltimore for trial. Governor Ritchie has had the papers and. petitions in the case sent to the Attorney Gen- eral to see what ought to be done. But Gov- ernor Ritchie already knows what ought to be done and he also knows what he would like to do. He would like to leave this case in the hands of Judge Bailey and he is waiting to see what the workers are going to do. The I. L. D, demands that the case be moved to Baltimore. That Jones be tried before a jury of white and Negro workers and not before a jury of rich white farmers or business men. ‘That the charges against, Helen Mays, the 22 year old I. L, D, investigator who was arrested and then released on bail just in time to be caught by the mob and beaten, be dismissed. That Gov- ernor Ritchie have the Mayor of Snow Hill and the other mob leaders arrested and that Judge Bailey be impeached. Workers! Stop the Legal Lynching of Jones! Governor Albert C. Ritchie, whose address is Annapolis, Md., and the attorney general of Maryland are waiting to see what the workers are going to do. If we forget about Orphan Jones he will surely be hanged by Judge Bailey. And just as surely the whole boss class and their tools, the police, will know that they can handle the workers, that the workers will stand for anything. And wages will be cut again and again. There will be no relief for the starving unemployed or their children. And the workers who one at a time protest will be railroaded to jail to rot there just as Tom Mooney has been rotting in the jails of California for the last 15 years because he dared to organize ‘the street car workers there against wage cuts.’ The po- lice framed him up on @ murder charge and the workers have not yet organized sufficiently to get him out. Workers! Stop the legal lynching of Orphan Jones! Get Tom Mooney out of jail! Save the innocent Scottsboro boys! Save the white and Negro. Harlan coal miners now on trial! You can do it by organizing together in the Interna- tional Labor Defense, By holding mess meetings and protesting to Guy. Ritchie, stating your de- mands, By getting your churches and your labor union bratiches to send in protests. No power on earth can save Orphan Jones except By JoRen “Believe It or Not”—And We Don’t! ‘The chap calling himself “Ripley” who tickles the folks with his “Believe it or not” stuff, had better have a care about standing at least some- where within a thousand miles of the truth. Bub then, after all, he sells himself to capitalist joure nalism and we cannot expect too much from @ mental prostitute. The reason we are mentioning him is an item he put out recently. It appeared in the New York papers using the Kings Feature Syndicate and in the Hearst paper, the Herald-Examiner of Nov. 30 in Chicago. But in the latter paper, by happy accident, the editor let a story creep in showing up the lie. The item appeared as a brief caption under- neath the mug of a bald-headed guy with a mus- tache, drawn without doubt from pure imagina- tion, the caption reading: “THE MERCIFUL MURDERER”—Dr. Alexei Sukov, of Moscow, poisoned 40 of his incur- able patients to save them further suffering and then committed suicide! The Soviet government will erect a monument to his HUMANENESS.” Such a GOOD story! And so in tune with the general feeling that if you tell a lie against the Soviet Union it is a virtue that the capitalists will reward. But, as before stated, the Chicago Herald-Examiner editor slipped a cog, and in another column ran the story from which the liar, Ripley “believe it or not,” took his cut— only it. CAME FROM BERLIN! ,... .. «. «+ sees It was headed: “Doctor Kills 40 to End Suffer- ing,” and it ran as follows: “BERLIN, Nov. 29.—A doctor, whose medical philosophy it was, that incurable patients should painlessly be put to death, killed thirty- nine suffering people, poisoned his wife, whom he thought to be dying, and then discovered that she had been suffering from a mild ail- ment. He killed himself. Dr. Bukov wrote a letter to the public prosecutor just before he took a deadly poison. He confessed poisoning thirty-nine of his patients ‘in order to put them out of their misery.” Now the comparison between this Dr. “Bukov” of Berlin and Ripley’s Dr. “Sukov” of Moscow is too obvious to gainsay! But it wouldn't do to put the blame on Berlin! Moscow must be in- vented! Along with a first name that would sound Russian, so “Alexei” had to serve! And then to make a dig at the Soviet Government by saying that it will “erect a monument to his hhumaneness”! Believe it or not, but the monument ought to be erected to Ripley being sure of course, that he is under it! EA He Forgot the Alfalfa From Chicago, by the International News Ser~ vice of Nov. 14, we learn that one Dr, Lloyd Ar- nold has won renown by finding out that “One bushel of wheat, 63 cents worth at current prices, will keep an average-sized family for several weeks.” This doc surely ought to be rewarded by the Rockefeller foundation. Science under capital- ism has reached its zenith when it can discover some way to reduce the living standards of the workers. And this approaches as near the “coo~ lie” standard as anyone in America can get, since rice, the usual diet of the coolie, costs even more than wheat. By the way, we sallied forth to find what wheat would cost in Manhattan, being rather given to natural food. And, say, farmers, did you ever hear anything like it? For wheat, just plain wheat in a gunny sack, the same that we used to drive a header-box out in Kansas, will set you back just ten cents a pound or some $5.60 per bushel at retail on the sidewalks of New York! And that’s uncooked. All you gotta do is to spend about six hours of gas cooking it. So what becomes of the argument about “living on 63 cents a month”? a In the “health food’ stores, where you can find them, a can of wheat, already cooked, wilt set you back just 25 cents cents, and it’s less than a pound, 14 ounces. So figure out what Profits Battle Creek makes! But at that, even a jackass requires hay with the grain! And the scientific doctor of Chicago forgets the alfalfa! Workers, this idea of all the wise guys laying awake nights figuring out how to put you on a diet of straw hats and rubber biscuits ought to get your dander up. ‘Tell ’em to try it on the Chamber of Commerce members first for a ten year period! And keep on insisting on real food —and Unemployment Insurance to get it! ae tie This Is A Tough One , boys and girls, we see that the pope hap up and said something. He declares that this “depression” is a whole lot too big to be man made, so God must have made it. God makes only the big ones. But here we strike 2 knot. In fact a of knots. Firstly, God seems to have lost all influence over territory ruled by the Soviet. The crisis never touched it. Secondly, the witch doctors disagree. Down in the Virgin Islands, according to a clipping somebody dropped on our desk, some holy man riseth up and sayeth that the crisis was brought about by “sexual laxity.” It seems that there are no virgins in the Vircin Islands and that this is the cause of the “de« pression.” That being so, it must be a “mans made” crisis. Unless, of course, God is respon- sible for the “sexual laxity.” Just where the thing stopped being a man- mede crisis and became a god-made crisis is a problem we'll have to leave to wiser wits to solve. But still we are grieved to learn that the pope has taken all the sting out of the charges of Father Edmund Walsh. of the Society of Jesiita Walsh, you know, testifled before the Fish Commission last year, and in tones trembling with excitement revealed that the economic crisis was “caused by the Communist International.” Yes, siree bob! He produced a document to “prove” it. ‘Here,” said Father Walsh, “is the ‘Thesis of the Sixth Congress of the Commmun- ist International. It was issucd in the summer of 1928, and it says in it that an econom’'s cisis was soon to sweep over the capitalist world, And the crisis came in 1929! That proves the Communist International caused the crisis!” We leave it to you folks, if figuring out the cause of the crisis ien't @ tough one far fhe Ger. een mm | ” EE eee |