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

ci DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DE MUNGER MARCH LEADERS — | "URGE PREPARATIONS FOR FEB. 4 DEMONSTRATIONS @ame bringing greetings from the ‘employed of England. It adopted ‘wnanimotsly a resolution to be sent to the Department of Labor, de- “manding release of 52 Tampa cigar strikers who ate Held for deporta- 1. a piuegiaeh “Massesof Negro workers, lining en with ‘amazement and delighted enthusiasm when they saw the complete intermixure and solidarity of Negro and white “marchers,” said Sof Harper, first speaker, 2 Negro worker. Harper isalso @ world wer veter- an and Went‘on the march as dele- gate from the Workers Ex-Service- men’s League. “Marchers in uniform, wearing medals, were @ disintegrating force for ‘the-marines,” he said. 6 “A Milestone!” “The National Hunger March will be followed by still bigger and still bettér organized movements,” said ‘WilliamsZ. Foster, secretary of the ‘Trade Union Unity League,” “but the mareh°of ‘Dec. 7 on Washington will be remembered as oneof those mile- stones along the ‘path of working class °progress.. It raised the whole struggle to a higher level.” Foster told ofthe failure of at- tempts of the capitalists to disregard thé: march, and after that, the fail- ure’ of their attempts to smash it far out away from Washington. He sta- ted that» the -millions. who learned of the marche, and were symvathetic, the hundreds of thousands in hun- dréds’ of ‘cities who actively demon- strated in-suvport of it, chilled the desire of Washington officials to launthacpolice attack against it in ‘Washington, Let the A, F, of L. Vote! Foster made a special point in his report of the necessity of carrying the'struggle-of the jobless into the A. Fyoof L. “Who told these A. F. of L. bureaucrats who met in the Vancouver convention that the A. F. of Is workers were opposed to un- employment. insurance?” he asked. “They don’t dare either to debate the question with us, not to take a refer- endum of the A. F. of L. member- ship: But the- jobless who belong to A. F. 6f SL. ‘unions ‘will not wait in the vain hope of a referendum from the*fakers. ° They’ demand one, but they are,going ahead, through locals of A. F. of L. usions, and through the Unemployed Councils, to draw up the referendum forms and give every A. F. of L. union member a chance to Vote on’ whether he wants unem- Pl if insurance.” | _ Sullivan, of the Bronx branch of the’ Unemployed’ Council, reported that in those: towns where the police made most threats; the workers wére most militant in their support of the NationalHunger March: He men- tioned that the Daily Worker alone of the English language dailies gave the facts about the march, Sullivan was followed by Bill Dunne, fhtroduced as editor of the Daily Worker. “The National Hufiger March was a soldt’ plextis blow to all the slan- ders..and demagdbic. lies of Wall 4 @oNtrNUED FROW PAGE ONE) passage of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, ‘prepare for national demonstrations Feb. 4 . Thé crowd gave prolonged applause to a sailor f Betiish ship inthe harbor now, who »— ————______________ | | and | rom a} Street and its Hoover administra- | tion,” said Dunne, and he described the situation as “The twilight of capitalism.” | Hoover's Program of Murder. | “All signs point to a deepening of the crisis, on a world scale,” said Dunne. “The Hoover administra~ tion tries one thing after another, with the sole purpose of preserving at the cost of working-class starva~ tion the very system that is respon- sible for the misery of the working class, Life itself shows ‘The Ameri- can Standard of Living’ to have be~ come sm lie.” Capitalist policy is te convince the workers they must rely on the mercy of Mellon-and Schwab, etc., for life itself, Dunne pointed out, and added that the National Hunger March broke through all this, and that all attempts to minimize it and misrepresent its aims and composi- tion are failing. The workers do not think it is a false alarm. Dunne took up the published re- ports tha tin the 33 largest cities of the United States (practically the total in which city relief is being col- lected) only $94,000,000 has been col- lected altogether, including sums for forced labor schemes and sums torn forcibly away from those who still have jobs through a check-off tm~ posed by threats. This, he showed, is enough to give the jobless of New York alone about $100 each to get through the winter on, and would leave nothing for the jobless of the other cities. “Hoover's Emergency Relief pro- gram is a murderous insult,” said Dunne. “Hoover’s message spits in the face of the unemployed, and so does Doak’s. Secretary of Labor Doak proposes to deport even more foreign-born workers and to finger- print and register them al] and place them in the grip of a merciless espionage and blacklist system. Both | Hoover and Doak plan for lower standards of living for the workers in order to finance new predatory imperialist wars in every corner of the world.” The final speaker was Herbert Benjamin, who was national field representative of the Washington Arrangements Committee of the march, and is now secretary of the National Committee of the Unem~ ployed Councils, formed in Washing- ton Dec. 7, when the 1,670 National Hunger March delegates met in na~ tional convention. He spoke of the present organiza- tional forms and the campaign to spread the Unemployed Councils reverywhere. He prophesied that the suicide rate would fall in the propor~ tion that the organization spreads. He referred to Washington as the city where they post armed gurads on garbage piles to prevent the chil- dren of the unemployed from eating it. He told of interesting details of the demonstration in Washington, in- cluding the placing of a dictaphone by secret service agents where the words of the delegation elected to place the demands before Hoover could be recorded, as they were barred from entering the White House. Negro, White Reformists Spur Betrayal Against Scottsboro 9 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) sion and other orzanizations of white and Negro. teformists. Are’ these gentlemen really fighting to FREE the Scottsboro boys and to smash -this: vicious murder frame-up of innocent Negro.children? They * Not in the careful statements they } releaseito the: Negro press. Not in | th studied sbfeches they make to de- for acevittal is to hope for the im- possible and to run the risk of stir- ring up a Janeuishing institution— he Ku Klux Klan. If a new trial \"Js-granted we may reasonably hope -twelve or ‘ifteen year sentences .Jinerease in the terror against the Because, says Kester, acquittal would revive the Ku Klux terror against the Negro masses! But it was this same Kester who in a secret renort before a conference of the Fellowship of Reconciliation admitted the lynching of “at least 75 Negroes” in Alabama alone since last August. It is this same Kester who admits a general Negro masses! Like Walter White and Pickens, Kester defends the boss courts which framed up these children, but attacks the revolutionary Negro and white workers who have protested vigorous~ ly against this frightful crime. In his letter, he warns against the growing influence of the Communists among the Negro masses. He attacks Chileote, years old, 1809 East Olive st, to en ife early yesterday. 4 ‘ote, Wisconsin organiz ictims Are Man and Woman, Believed to Have Been Jobless and Without Shelter. 'HERMOMETER DOWN TO 19 jany Liners Are 0: and Snowfall—Up-State Reporte Temperature 16 Below Zero. ‘The lowest temperature here this! Winter, 19 degrees, was registered ai the local Weather Bureau et 7] daemorying, followin RWidow, Hungry and Cold, Pleads in Vain With 3 Police- men to Send Her to, Jail. iin Court Her Story Brings Ald and Suspended Sentence—$28 Damage, Falls “Ugon Landlord. JORLE pORAWING NEARER: Children of Embattled Coal- Fate per 1,000 persons, which in nor4| More Results of Hoover’s Hunger Program Oo MINERS Diggers Will be Stunted and Sickly, Social Worker De.) clares With Jobs PITTSBURGH (FP)—Tents; America’s wealth that falls to, , NEW YORK (FP). —' } So'"cold that she no. longer Ay s (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE? agents into Patterson, N. J. just prior to a threatened strike in the textile mills of that city. These agents were to arrest those aliens who’ were to take prominent part in the strike and thereby proved to the Department of Labor that they were undesirables. According to the Department of La- bor, and to Mr. Hoover, and to Mr, Morgan a desirable alien and a pros- pective “‘good” American is only such a slave as is willing to accept wage cuts with humility and receive the police club over his head without protest. All the activities ow the Depart- ment of Labor in the Cabinet of President Hoover, prove conclusively that its name, Department of Labor, is only a shield to cover up its real activity. The real functions of the Department of Labor are those of a Department of Strike Breaking and of Workers Deportation. And the head of this department at the pres- ent moment is Mr. Doak. Tt is the head of this same depart- ment and it is the satge Mr. Doak that issued the statement yesterday that the Hunger Marchers were led by Reds. What of it, Mr. Doak? Why shouldn't these leaders have been Reds? All the yellows and blacks are preaching to the workers submission, they preach acceptance of starvation, @ starvation aggravated by the taunt of charity. The Reds, the Commu- nists, are the only ones~that point out to the workers that they have a right te demand a chance to eat and that the capitalists must be forced to provide them wtih food. ‘The chief of Mr. Doak, President Hoover recently declared over the radio that it is not the business of government to take care of the un- employed. This declaration is made by the chief of the same government which during the war paid the Amer- ican capitalists many hundred mil- lion doHars for goods sold by them to Britain, France and Italy. Britain, France and tlaly were unable to pay for the war materials they had bought in America, The American govern- ment then considered it its business to insure the American capitalists against certain losses, So the Amer- ican government padi these bills. the militant methods of the Commu- nists in exposing the Scottsboro frame-up and in rallying the inter- national working class to the mass fight to free the boys. The Commu~ nists, he says ,“are trying to bulldoze the state.” Ignoring the fact that it was only this mass protest which stayed the murderous hands of the southern boss lynchers and forced a stay in the executions set for last July, Kester writes: “To my mind the N.A.A.C.P. and the Interracial Commission fol- ‘lowed the only logical and political method they could under the extst- ing circumstances. Without the Communists, I believe the N. A. A. C. P. could get something that And the reasonable, in Kester’s ex- pressed opinion, is 12 or 15 years or “most likely it will be life imprison- ment” for these innocent working class children, caught in the net of @ murderous frame-up while en- gaged in the hopeless hunt for work. Workers! The reformists are re- doubling their efforts to betray the Scottsboro boys. We must increase a hundred-fold the fight to smash this hideous frame-up and free these in- Evidently it is the business of the American government to take care that the American capitalists should not be deprived of their profits on sales made to insolvent customers. But according to Mr. Hoover it {s not the business of the government to see to it that the masses of un- employed workers be saved from star- vation through adequate unemploy- ment relief by means of wunemploy- thougment insurance. The govern- ment says that it is its business to strations and protest meetings! Rally the masses for the nation-wide dem- onstrations on Jan. 18! Build the fighting alliance between the Negro and white workers against the lynch terror, against Jim Crowism and na- tional oppression, against unemploy- ment and starvation! Defend the Negro masses! Support, the demand for the right of the Ne- gro majorities in the Black Belt to decide and control their own govern- ment! Support the struggles of the colonial masses! Defend the Chin- ese Revolution and the Soviet Union! Down with imperialism and its bloody oppression of the working class and the national minorities! ? MR. DOAK SEES “RED” guaranty the profits of the capital- ists even though that means to starve the workers. The Reds, the Commu- nists maintain that the government of the capitalists must feed the work- ers even though this may require a special tax on the capitalists. That, Mr, Doek is the reason why the Reds led the Hunger March and not the yellow traitors or the black reaction- aries. and Mr. Hoover and Mr. Morgan and Mr. Woll declared repeatedly that un- employment insurance is “un-Amer- ican.” of workers to search for food in the garbage cans. Unemployment insur- ance would save them from that nec- essity. But Mr. Hoover, and Mr. Woll, and you, Mr. Doak consider unem- ployment insurance “un-mercan;” you rather have the American workers eat out of garbage cans. Do yon wonder Mr. Doak that the unem- ployed follow the Reds, the Com- munists and not the blacks of your calibre? The Unemployed Hunger Marchers came to Washington to demand re- lief. Is there any question as to their need for relief? Is there any doubt that millions of American workers are today facing misery and starvation because of mass unemploy- ment? Do you, Mr. Doak dare to chal- lenge the fact that millions of work~ ers’ children in America are today suffering from malnutrition because of their parents’ inability to supply them with food on account of un- employment? Representatives of those hungry workers came to Washington to de~ mand of you, Mr, Doak, and of your government, unemployment relief. Representatives of the parents of millions of undernourished workers’ children of America came to Wash~ ington to demand of you, Mr. Doak and of your government the payment of unemployment insurance so that they can feed their children. These representatives of hungry workers of America demanded that the govern- ment mobilize its resources to supply rellef for the hungry workers and their starving children. Your De~- partment of Labor, Mr. Doak ans- wered this demand by mobilizing its resources for the investigation of the political color of the leaders and or- ganizers of the Hunger March. In- stead of telling the American workers how your department intends to help them feed their hungry children you of telling the millions of unemployed how your department intends to help them solve the plight growing out of their unemployment, you tell them that by spending the money of your department you have found out that MINERS PREPARE FOR JAN. 1 IN CALLOWAY, KY, (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) lieving built of thin wood, with gen- erous cracks, ramshackle, two to four rooms, many on stilts. to keep the damp out. During working-times, the miners paid the exhorbitant sum of | |$1 @ month a room for these paper boxes of houses. Today they ¢an’t Pay that. From day to day the cup- board grows more bare. There is only plenty of the brackish water from the one pump of the settlement. Little children play in the road barefoot. The miners wear their last pair of tattered overalls. The miners’ wives wear scrupulously clean calicoes. |neahhtra atfi?fl m? Mm? fm? mm? And today these American miners are fighting mad at this hunger enforced on them by the callousness, the inefficiency, the decrepitness of {the dying capitalist system. otfMl?Mi?fMi-?ffi-? fi?- fi-? Mem , Calloway miners have been “union” men for a long time. Their women have gone through other strikes by the side of their men, through the sell-outs of the UMWA, the IWW. Caloway men have learned about the N, M. U. And like nothing else they have ever known, the people are for the militant policy of this union. In organizing for it they speak again and again that it is “a rank and file union.” Today Calloway miners belong ai- most 10 per cent to the N. M. U. and their women are fast becothing into the “Women’s Branches.” All Forces for the Strike Nothing is more important these days in Cadlloway than the strike that is to begin Jan. 1, 1932 because the miners are confident that the strike can win better conditions for them. They themselves are organizers. They go out into surrounding camps, and bring back signed union applica~ tion cards in wads of 30, 40, 50. One of the principal demands of the strike is “re-establishment of all blacklisted miners.” This effects the Calloway miners directly, because these miners, noted for their militancy, have been refused jobs by other coal companies. Today, both the Women’s Branch and the local N. M. U. met to speed preparations for the strike. The women left babies to their husband’s care, left washing the dinner dishes of the herbs picked in the mountains, the pread and potatoes, and came to the meeting. The Women Are im the Fight “Grandma,” mother of five miner sons, 65 years old,—a little married woman of 17, married already two ‘years,—Della—fighters in two strikes along with her rothers and her hus- band—Miss Taylor rouse the other women of the settlement to the meet- ing. A girl of 20 is chairman, con- ducts her office in a dignified, of- ficial way. Committees.are elected. What is more important than this— what is more important than or- ganizing to fight against starving to death here in this hole in the moun- tains ‘The main business of these women is the setting up of a community kitchen. Constructive suggestions. A few of the men came to the women’s meeting. One speaks of how in former strikes the women have sent their men back to work, and that the Calloway women must join in the ‘Women’s Branches, and fight shoul- der to shoulder with the men on the committees on the picket line. “I ain’t never learned how to read nor write,” says one woman, “but I knows ‘how this is going to be a serious fight. Ain’t just a plaything. We all got to put our shoulders to the wheel and push real hard.” And all the women agree, and the work is divided evenly among them. They too are organizers, and go from camp to camp organizing the women for the strike, Full Steam Ahead! Imedmiately after the women's meeting, the men follow. These Ken~ tucky miners, unlearned in the con- ducting of their own meetings do a top-rate job. Their characteristic boyishness and ever-present quiet humor does not preclude their dead seriousness about this business of or- ganizing the union, or preparing for January. Ist. Calloway, Ky., is going full steam ahead preparing for the strike. They repeat to one another Wagenknecht’s assurance that the working-class of this country will stand solidly behind them with food, clothing, funds. 'Their struggle will be a bitter one. But these Kentuckians are fighters and deter- mined to win. » They say “Death is sure anyway— we've got nothing to lose—” But the answer of this struggle must not be death for the Kentucky miners, forgotten by the bosses. in the Kentucky hills. The answer must be victory in the fight against the bosses’ starvation and terror. The answer will not be found only in the hands of the. fighting Kentucky miners round about January 1. The American working-class holds the key. ° DASE AR ae AE MINERS PAID 15 CENTS PER TON - VICCO, Ky.—There are ten mines | in Vieco, Ky., and the starvation } among the folks here is terrible. They pay the miners 15 cents a ton for coal. Cornbread is all we get to eat at the best.—A Miner. LEAD MINERS WORK 12 DAYS PER MONTH MULLAN, Ida.—tI am the wife of | a lead miner and the mother of two | children. Conditions are getting worse here daily. My husband is working only 12 days per month, ‘We are just existing —E, D_ EMBER (18, 1931 TOMORROW! — | Two articles of special interest to active workers in the STRUGGLE FOR NEGRO RIGHTS The Tasks of the Revolutionary Workers in the Mobilization of the Negro Masses Against the War Danger. By Harry Haywood White Chanvinism as a Main Dan- ger in the Winning of the Negro Masses, By Bill Gebert, organ- izer of the Chicago District of the Communist Party. These two articles will appear in 'THE DAILY WORKER, Saturday, December 19 KY. MINERS SPREAD CALE FOR STRIKE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) move from the house where she has lived for years. A district board meeting of the Na- tional Miners Union here was held this evening and is sending additional rank and file organizers into the field. Men have been sent to all fields, in- cluding far out mining camps. Workers International Relief kitch- ens are being set up in preparation for the strike. Seven are now in ex- istence. The miners fired for strike activity already need relief. Word was received from Block, Tennessee, The mines there will be shut down tight. Organizers are being sent into that field. Five men are going into Cin- cinnati to raise relief. Sheriff Blair of Harlan County says he will permit no mass meetings. Meetings are being arranged. ce 8 PINEVILLE, Ky. Dec. 17—The Kentucky coal fields are being flooded with leaflets of the National Miners Union containing the strike call of the National Miners Union Convention, and the demanids of the strike which is set for January Ist, The demands for which the miners will fight are as follows: 1. 50c a ton machine coal, 4 feet and over, and 2c additional for Inch on ton below 4 feet. 2. 65e a ton pick coal, 4 feet and over, and 2c additional for inch on below 4 feet. 3. 25c a yard for wet places. 4, Top day-men $4.80, helpers $4.40, unclassified Inbor $3.66 per day. 5. Machine men 15¢ per ton. 6. Payment for all dead work to be based on top day-men’s rate. 7. Yardage to be paid for in the necks, entries and all narrow places. 8. When a miner cannot make his day work because of the company fault he is to be paid in full shift. 9, When any miner is taken off the face for other work he shall be paid top day-men’s wages. 10. Delivery of all supplies into the working place to be done by the company. Cars also to be placed and pulled by the company. IL. Abolition of the system of bucking the coal. 12, Equal turn in the entire mine. 13. Installment of man trip in mines where ever necessary. 14. All miners to be paid in U. 8. currency, regular pay-days on 15th and 30th of each month, every miner to have the right to trade wherever he chooses. 15, After the strike re-employ- ment of all blacklisted miners. No discrimination against any of the strikers, and especially not against the Negro miners. 16. Withdrawal of all armed forces from the coal fields and im- mediate release of all miners im jails for union activities. 17. Enforcement of the 8-hour day. 18. Recognition of the Union check-weighman in all mines. 19. Recognition of the National Miners Union and a broad mine committee. We call on all Kentucky miners to strike and win these demands. Urging the miners to “Organize Rank and File Leadership,” the leaflet. concludes “The best guarantee to defeat the coal operators, the U. M. W. A. and the I. W. W. and to assure the vic- tory of the strike is to organize rank and file leadership and control over the strike. On the first day of the strike a broad and file strike com- mittee shall be elected at a mass meeting in every mine. A broad cen- tral rank and file strike committee shall be set up as soon as the strike begins. Every mine must be repre- sented on this central leadership of the strike. The picket committee, the defense committee and the relief City and State Street CESAR NEW NANKT! G GOVERNMENT i IN MASSACRE OF STUDENTS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE OND fired on an anti-Japanese demonstration of students in Nanking. Imperialist dispatches dents suffered many cz killed and wounded, ualties from Nanking report that the sbu- , but do not give the number of The dispatches state “A volley of rifle fire from regular troops broke up 2 serious riot in which a mob of students wrecked the plant of the Central China News. “They rushed the building, brushing police aside, and smashed everything. Editors of the paper, the student leaders have charged, were hostile to demands for a more militant policy against Japan.” This murderous massacre by new “more democratic government of the Canton clique of Chinese stu- dents demonstrating against Japa- nese imperialism and its native lack- eys shows clearly the continuity of the Kuomintang program of betri ing China and suppressing the anti- imperialist struggles of the masses. It confirms the editorial warning in yesterday's Daily Worker that “The so-called “left wing” of the Kuomintang, that now takes power in Nanking, will be even more sav- agely—if that is possible—against the masses, than Chiang Kai-shek was. Its pro-Japanese tendency is clear in the person of Eugene Chen. Wang Chin-wel, its political leader, and Chang Fak-wei, its “left” mili- tarist, have repeatedly massacred the workers, peasants and students, the last bloodbath at Canton on Oct, 10 being carried ont by Wang Chin-wei against students who or- | ganized a boycott against Japan over the Manchurian seizure, Imperialists Push Attacks on Chinese Masses. Within 24 hours the imperialist press reports from Nanking have proved the absolute correctness of that warning. ‘The imperialists, alarmed at the angry forward surge of the anti-im- perialist movement and teh tremen- dous growth of the influence of the Chinesé Communist Party, and the strengthening of the Central Soviet Government of China, are frantically preparing a bloodbath for the Chi- nese masses, aimed at partitioning China among themselves and crush- ing the anti-imperialist struggle and its only dependable leader, the Chi- nese Communist Party. Workers! Defend the Chinese Revolution! De- mand hands off China! Demand the withdrawal of all imperialist troops and gunboats from China! Chang Abandons Pretense of Resisting Japanese. Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, de- ‘posed by the Japanese as governor of Manchuria, yesterday abandoned all pretense o fresisting the Japanese seizure of Manchuria.. Chang re- signed his command of the Kuomin- tang forces in Chinchow, nominating as his successor Chang Tso-hsiang, an open advocate of Japanese con- trol of Manchuria. The nomination of Chang Tso-hsiang is reported by the imperialist press to be highly satisfactory to the Japanese. The new “left” government has invited Chang Hsueh-liang to accept ap- pointment as military commissioner of North China. A Washington dispatch to the New ‘York World-Telegram admits that the new Japanese “strong hand” govern- ment is already laying plans to con- vert Manchuria into an “indepen- dent” state which will look to Japan, rather than to China, for guidance. committee shall be set up in every mine. The Negroes, the women and the youth must have adequate rep- resentation on all the committtees. A mass picket line is to be established in every mine on strike. Mass pick- eting will win the strike! Build the N. M. U. “The building of the National Miners Union is of the decisivé im- portance. Every miner, umemployed, Negro or white, must be signed up into the N. M. U.! Every woman and every girl must be or- ganized into Women's Branches of the N.M. U! “100 per cent organization in every mine!” Strike on January Ist, 1932! Defeat the starvation and the terror of the coal operators! Smash the strikebreaking U. M. A rank and file strike committee in every mine! Picket every mine in the state! Build the National Miners Union! Forward to a victorious strike! (This strike call is issued by the District Convention or the National | Miners Union in Kentucky. For all information write to: National Miners Union, Box 73, Pineville, Kentucky). FIGHT FOR THE 5,000 SUBS CAMPAIGN! For one year $6.00 ($8.00 in Manhattan and Bronx) For six months $3.00 ($4.50 in Manhattan and Bronx) For three months $1.50 ($2.25 in Manhattan and Bron) For one month 30.50 ($0.75 in Manhattan and Bronx) : striker or Our slogan must be ‘ Japanese Tighten Strangle Hol on | Mancharia. “It is regarded here as not without | Significance that Jotaro Yamamoto, | former president of the South Man- churian Railway, has been made a Minister without portfolio in the new and Yosuke Matsuoka, for- ice president, has become an adviser to the Foreign Office, Both known as two of the ablest citizens of Japan, declare that Manchuria is not part of China. Fear that the imperialists are sit- | ting on “an open powder keg” in | China is expressed by Washington of- ficials, according to the dispatch The wrecking of the Nanking For- eign Office and the froced resigna- | tion of Chiang Kei-shek as a result | of the mass anti-imperialist move- ment has “deepened apprehension” jin Washington, the dispatch reports. ‘This expression of alarm by official Weshington over the growing mass | resistance in China was reported on the same day that U. S. Ambassador Edge was extending the congratula~- tions of the Wall Street government to Briand “on the happy conclusion of the work of the last Council of the League of Nations.” That Coun- cil, under the secret Jeadership of the United States, legalized the Japanese } seizure of Manchuria. ‘Armed Mass Resistance Grows in j Manchuria. Armed resistance to the Japanese invaders is on the increase in Man- | churia. Floyd Gibbons in a Universal | Service dispatch predicts renewed fighting around Newchang, where Chinese irregulars have been battling the Japanese, A Mukden dispatch reports 2 battle yesterday between Japanese and Chinese irregulars at the village of Machiatsai, east of Tiehling. The dispatch claims that the Chinese were foreed to withdraw, leaving 34 dead and 2 prisoners. It admits that the Japanese suffered 5 killed and 8 wounded. The same dispatch reports another battle at the village of Koataitze, 15 miles south of Chang-chun. Four Japanese infantry platoons are being rushed from Kirin to Wafachan, where a force of Chinese irregulars are threatening Japanese control of that section of the Kirin-Chang- Chun Railway. The irregulars de- stroyed a railway bridge after dis- arming Japanese-controfled Chinese police. Japan Rushing Still More Troops. A Tokyo dispatch reports that ad- ditional Japanese troops left yester- day for Manchuria. It also states that “the new Japanese Cabinet of Premier Inukai decided today to send more troops to Manchuria.” Pushing its war preparations against the Chinese masses and the Soviet Union, the United States start- ed yesterday the recruitment of ex- marines, The New York Times re- ports: * marines who are physi- cally fit will be accepted for re- enlistment immediately, the re- cruiting station at 18 East 23rd St announced yesterday. Only men who have been out of the service one year have been eligible. The reason for resuming normal re- cruiting is the need of full quotes for the naval maneuvers in the Pa- cific next year.” Cantonese Get Cold Beception by Nanking Masses. The Cantonese officials of the new “left” government yesterday traveled to Nanking, under escort of an ‘armored train. The Oantonese re- ceived a cold welcome from the workers and students of Nanking. A Peiping dispatch reports: ‘During the reception students raided the Central Kuomintang headquarters, committed various acts of vandalism, and seized aev- eral minor officials.” Lin Sen, chairman of the Legists- tive Yuan and Acting President of the Nanking government, and Tang Shao-yi are mentioned as Presiden- tial possibilities. Tang was an assc- ciate of Hoover = tthe time Hoover ‘was In China, brutually explotting the Chinese masses. TO FIRE 600 CHICAGO CARMEN CHICAGO.—It {s reported that the Chicago surface lines are going to put 30 cars in the barns as an economy measure. This means 600 men out of a job, longer waiting and more strap hanging for the passengers —W. 8.