The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 21, 1931, Page 1

j and Ai WORKERS ‘OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central - Org [istered us arcond-class matte? at the Peet Office VOL. VIII, No. 305» == at New York, N, Y¥., under the net of March 3, 1879 2 Down with Imperialist War! Hands Off China! Down With Secret Diplo- macy! Defend the Soviet Union! “At the bottom of it all is undoubtedly the almost universal conviction that relations with Soviet Russia are rapidly ap- proaching a break-down, and that Manchuria must be a secure source of food supply and a secure base of operations.”—From ansarticle entitled “Japan’s White Terror,” by Rodney Gilbert, N. Y. Herald-Tribune, a 16. Weecas the above refers foe to Japan's plans for war upon the Soviet Union, it proves completely the previous analysis of the Daily Work- er, that Japan is acting as a spear-head of world imperialism against the Soviet Union and against Soviet China, because, at least UNTIL NOW, Japan's seizure of Manchuria has had the approval of the United States and French imperialism acting through the League of Nations. Japan has seized Manchuria as a base of “operations” against the Soviet Union. And it was for THIS reason and no other, that the League of (imperialist) Nations and American imperialism have consented to the outrageous violation of all the humbug “peace” treaties by Japan. ‘That war threat against the Soviet Union remains as the PRINCIPAL danger of war, although for tactical reasons the imperialists are compelled to give their attention TEMPORARILY to China. There are two out- standing reasons for this immediate activity of the imperialists in China: First, the swift rise of the Chinese masses in revolt against the whole kit’ and cabocdle of the Kuomintang militarists, who from North to South and in: ev corner of China have acted as agents of one or the other of imperialist powers, who have butchered hundreds of thousands of workers and peasants who fought imperialism, who sold the country to ' imperialism—the masses are rising under the banner of the Chinese Soviet Government led by the Communist Party. ‘This mass revolutionary movement is the greatest danger to imper- “iaqlism, It is a danger in the rear of the war drive against the Soviet Union; Tt is an obstacle to the dismemberment and re-division of China now schemed by the French-Japanese-American bloc. Secondly, the very advance of this redivision intensifies the rivalries among the imperialists for the loot to be won in China. To begin with, the redivision is aimed to take place at the expense of British interests. But rivalry within the bloc itself, particularly between Japan and Amer- ica, develops in the course of the action. That Great Britain is upset—and fighting back—against encroach- ment on its interests, is shown, by the sarcastic attack on the League of Nations made in the Tory “Morning Post” of London on Dec. 16, where it is said: ff tha Leoone were wound wp we de nol believe the dove of “peace would moult one feather. If the League was set in motion to further American policy in Manchuria, some of the cost should come out of the American Treasury.” British imperialism thus fully understands that the seizure of Man- churia by JAPAN. is an AMERICAN POLICY. But American imperial- ism, which is using Japan as its battering ram against the Soviet Union, and for that reeson alone approves of Japanese occupation of Manchuria, is correctly suspicious of Japan moving troops FURTHER SOUTH. Especially so, because at this moment Chiang Kai-shek, whose bloody représsi m of the masses was in the interest of Wall Street, is overthrown ican domination ta Central China 4s threatened. not only by the revolutionary upsurge of the masses, but also menaced by Japanese | maneuvres with the Cantonese wing of the Kuomintang who have been | long flirt.ag with Japan and are now taking over the Nanking govern- | menk* | + ©" [tis for THIS reason that Secretary Stimson Friday sent PUBLICLY | a *eaution” to Tokio, expressing ‘‘anxiety” over Manchuria in “friendly bub positive terms.” ‘It is for this reason that the N. Y. Times of Dec. i ; j P 17, told of American recruiting of “former marines” who are “accepted itumediately” supposedly for “the naval maneuvres in the Pacific next year!” ~ Japan naturally insists on its complete consolidation in Manchuria, ) becauss, as the Herald-Tribune article at the beginning of this editorial ] mentions; Manchuria is a “secure source of food supply” and a “secure | base of operations’—not only against the Soviet Union, but ALSO for further invasion into China! America would supply Japan for a war on Soviet Siberia. But with Manchuria firmly held, Japan may well go after more of China, not dependent upon American supplies and, indeed, challenge American im- perialism to fight it out for the loot which STIMSON’S SECRET AGREE- MENTS with Japan had provided should be American and not Japanese spoils? Workers, is it not clear that the war, makers are every day dragging YOU nearer to a new world butchery? You and your loved ones will suffer and die for the profits and loot of Wall Street which the SECRET DIPLOMACY of Hoover and Stimson is protecting in this swamp of intrigue and war schemes! ‘The Herald-Tribune article quoted. at the beginning of this editorial shows clearly that the main aim of imperialism is WAR ON THE SOVIET UNION. This continues to be the MAIN AIM because, in America as well as in Japan, the toiling masses are refusing longer to bear the burden of the capitalist crisis. The Herald-Tribune, indeed, openly states that Jepen is driving ahead for a war on the Soviet because: “There has been a serious growth of radical thought and activ- ity in Japan, characterized by incessant demonstrations of genuinely Red sentiments, and by disturbances which would have furnished’ , abundant cable news if the police censors had permitted.” Workers of America! The Japanese workers have taken up the fight against their own war-makers and imperialists! In China the million ™masses are rising under their own Soviet! Here in America, the capi- ‘} talists and their Hoover government persist in starving and repressing employed and unemployed—and fear ONLY YOUR ACTION, inspired by the victory of socialism in the Soviet Union! You, workers of America, are starved and exploited by the S. Wail ‘Strect bankers who are scheming to loot China and make war the Soviet Union! You must make yourselves heard! Down with imper- jalist war!. Hands off China!’ Withdraw all armed forces from China and the Philippines! All war funds to the Unemployed! 6% OF 5000-12 MO. GOAL REACHED 304 YEARLY SUBSCRIPTIONS IN. MUST REACH 12% NEXT WEEK IN DAILY WORKER DRIVE! 4 thet tide is rising with the i increasing surge of new subs | in the 5,000 12-month Daily Worker Subscription 4 Drive. To date we have received 3,647 months in sub- i scriptions, 304 yearly subs toward the final goal. ~The last six Drive days have marked a stronger mob- . ilization of the army of Daily Worker fighters. This is ‘reflected by an increase of 3 per cent, equivalent to the total of the previous eleyen days covered by last week’s tables. The drive is now kt 6 pet cent of the total figure which must be reached by January 18th. But a 3 per cent increase is far too weak. Just as last’ week practically doubled all previous efforts in the Drive so next week must double this week’s figure. It can be done if the Party districts, mass organizations and all revolutionary workers get solidly in back of the Drive, if-the work of getting subs is closely linked up with un- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) JAPAN PLANS N NEW ATTACK ON CHINCHOW May Ignore Protests By U. S. Which Sees Interest ts Menaced _ Yen Falls Chiang, Wall St. Pup- pet Retains Control of Armies Following a_ secret conference with the Nanking minister t'o Japan, Premier Inukai announced on Satur- day that he would issue an ul- timatum to Nanking ordering the withdrawal . within one week of all Chinese troops in the Chinchow area. Such an ultimatum was cynically predicted several weeks ago by Japanese offi- cials as a means of affording the Nanking government a pretext for carrying out the withdrawal before the threat of force. United States Ambassador Forbes has been instructed by Stimson to repeat the warning given Japan within the past week against the seizure of Chinchow. Stimson sees in the Japanese plans to seize Chin- chow a direct threat to United States domination over Kuomintang China. This hegemony has been badly shaken already by the tremen- dous upsurge of the mass anti-imper- jalist, anti-Kuomintang movement in China. This movement forced the resig- a apanese | (CONTINUED ON Call to Spread Manhattan Shirt Strike Is Issued Mass Picket Line to Be Thrown Around Factory PATERSON, N, J.—Thts morning the strikers at the Manhatan Shirt Company will throw a mass picket line around the factory and attempt to spread the strike to all the de- partments. The strike has been on for two weeks since the workers ap- pealed to the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union for help. During this time the police have fought the mass picket lines and urged the work- ers to join the American Federation of Labor. The decision to spread the strike was made at a mas meeting of the strikers in Lithuanian Hall, Lafayette and Somers St. PAGE THREE) COURT TAKES HUNGRY WOMAN'S CHILD (By a Worker Correspondent) PITTSBURG, Pa.—A mother here, desperate and without food in the house, offered to sell her child for $500. The boss court upon learning of the poor woman’s plight took the child away from her, The court was Rinmist thle Section td the Communist International ) “gee unist Porty U.S.A. GATHER WITH YOL WRIENDS OF TH DR” GROUPS. READ, DISCL , GE ENTER SOCIALIST DRVE FOR 5,000 “ SUBS. crry EDITIO. Negro] nes Back Ky. Strike Cal “My People Will Stand l for Jan. Ist Solid As A Rock”, Says Boatd Member of National Miners Union; Rank and File Organizers Active PINEVILLE, Ky., Dec. 20.—‘“My people will stand as solid as a rock when this strike comes, and all they want to know is whether you white people mean business! the declaration of the he This was Negro member of the Southern District Board of the National Miners» Union—the first Negro to sit along with white workers on an official union body in Kentucky—at its first meeting held last Thursday to prepare strike action for January Ist. at the district convention of t The board was elected he N. M. U. held here Dec. 13 3. A special welocme was given the¢——————————_—_—___—_— Negro board member by the other members of the board. The board discussed the setting up immediately of committees of action to be turned into strike committees just as soon as the strike is called of the 17,000 Eastern Kentucky coal miners. All efforts are being made to spread the strike into other Southern statcs. Re- lief committees to build the Workers International Relief and its strike re- lief apparatus also. were set up. U.M.W.A. Locals Join Up. A delegate from Davisburg, Ky. was present. He reported that his entire UMWA local came over to the NMU, and assignments were made on the district board. Rank and file organizers are cov- ering every mine in this field. Thése organizers are turning in about 40 NM. applications daily. Reports given show that the sentiment for strike grows daily. More and more workers are flocking into the N.M.U. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Jobless Insurance Attacked at Dinner of Republican Club Harry J. Allen, former governor of Kansas, speaking at a luncheon of the National Republican Club Satur- day, delivered a bitter attack on unemployment insuranc. Returning from baulrupt Europe where miiions of workers are starving of the break- down of capitalism, Allen said it was all the fault of the workers who wanted a “dole.” The former governor layed special stress on the condition in Germany TR SHOPMATES IN E DAILY WORK- T SUBS FOR THE “DAILY WORKER.” COMPETITION IN DAILY WORKER” fan 0. a hance pts HUNGRY JOBLESS STORM BIG STORE; HUNGER OTHER PRODUCT OF HOOVER’S PROGRAM] A typical row of shacks along the river in St. Louis “sheltering” hundreds of unemployed workers from the bitter winter cold. The workers have given the name “Hooverville” to their “villages,” thereby expressing their disgust with the Hoover Wall St. government which condemns them to live like homeless dogs. Adopt Action Program for Fight on Alien Persecution and admitted that France was just as worried over Germany as the other capitalist nations. If Germany goes off the gold standard, the United States will also drop the gold Standard, Allen said. Matthew Woll seconded Allen and assured the Republican party that! “labor was satisfied with the existing arrangements.” B.@O. Preside nt Says Rail Union Heads Asked 15% Cut NEW YORK.—How the rai ilroad union leaders deliberately asked the railroad presidents to announce a 15 per cent wage! cut, in srder to help the union fakers force the 1,500,000 rail- road men to accept a 10 per cent cut, desired by the railroad bosses, is told in a special dispatch from Washington to the New York “Sun.” ning story was suppressed in all other newspapers, and was later suppressed in the “Sun.” The headline of the New York “Sun” reads: “President of the B & O Says Notice of 15 Per Cent Reduction Was Asked by Labor Chiefs.” Daniel Willard, the presi- dent of the B & O Railroad made a special trip to Washington to see President Hoover about the forth- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Syracuse Municipal Workers Are “Asked” to Take Cut In Wages Declaring that he did not believe “In wage cutting as a means of re- lieving economic depression,” Mayor Marvin of Syracuse, N. Y., proposed that 3,000 city employes accept a 10 per cent wage cut. This proposal was made because the city has a deficit of $3,000,000, and the natural thing for capitalist Officials to do is to make the workers make up the deficit. not interested in relieving the wo- man’s hunger, Police In Two Cities Attack Mass Fight to Save Ross BULLETIN No news has reached the Daily Worker as we go to press on the outcome of the fight of the In-- ternational Labor Defense for a stay of execution In the lynch ver- dict against Barney Lee Ross in Texas, Last Friday was set for the execution of this innocent young Negro worker, Pe ae ant KANSAS CITY, .Mo., Dec, 20.— Showing their complete solidarity with the boss lynch courts of Texas which railroaded Barney Lee Ross to the electric chair on a lying frame- up charge of rape, local bosses and their police viciously attacked a meeting of white and Negro workers held here to protest against the lynch. verdict. Nineteen white workers and one Negro worker were arrested, when the workers militantly defended their rights to protest this crime and dis- play their solidarity with the per- secuted Negro masses. A crowd of more than 250 were present at the meeting which was held on a street corner in the working-class district. ‘The workers were indignant as the fact sof the frame-up were exposed by working-class leaders. When the second speaker was half through his speech, ten motorcycle policemen suddenly appeared on the scene, workers around the platform and ar- rested 20. A few days ago, another protest meeting was similarly broken up by the police who fear the growing solidarity of the Negro and white workers in the fight against lynch teror and starvation. . 8 © SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb., Dec. 20——A dance given by the South Sioux Unemployed Council to raise (CONTINUED ON PAGE THKER) This dam-¢, Harry D. Gibsoa ; Protection of the Foreign Born New York Conference NEW YORK.—Responding with tremendous enthus the délegates to the New Yi District Conference for the} gave their answer to the call for struggle against the terror drive unleashed upon foreign born workers with the adoption of an immediate fighting program of action. . The conference was opened at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., at 11 a. m. Sunday with delegates present from 222 branches of va ious organizations, having a com- bined membership of 22,902 wor! neluded among the delegates representatives of 7 American eration of Labor locals and deleg from 9 Socialist Workmen's branches and one Italian o1 tion, Maggin: Following the election of ious committees for ‘the c and Natio the Comm: Foreig2 Born deli port on the lied with increasing viciousness. The first nine r: alone of 1931 saw over 18,000 foreign born workers deported to the fascist countries of Eu and Asia Especially. against those foreign born workers who fought militantly in strikes and for unemployment in- {CONTINE “SOCIALISTS” IN ‘MILWAUKEE JAIL AGE Two) , i The chzirman of the Emergency | Unemployment Relief Committee is President of the newly merged Man- ufacturers Trust Co, and Chatham Phoenix banks. He is a director of the Wright Aeronatical Co., Sheri- dan-Wyoming Ccal Co. and other large corporations, He was a mem- ber of the War Council arid War Finance Commission. It was the Gibson Committee that forced the N. Y. workers who are getting star- vation wages to pay for the unem- ployed. : HUNGRY JOBLESS) Crime Was Demand- ing Unemvlovment Relief MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 20.—Four race Brown, Jack Schneid- ' Jae son and Leo Marsh were ed the morning of Dec. 15 by tee <i of Deportation persecition foreicn. born wor From hundred in the 90 y, tie number of ¢ grown until last year, it reached the ttoal of 16,6: With the deepening of the cri nd the fierce ottact: the capitalist clacs upon a'l the program of deportation yed workers in the demand for food at the Market Street Relief Station. The relief station attendant who caused the arrest, used to be an j employment agent for Keehring Mix- ler Co. Then he was cordially hated Miner Works Twelve Days and Finds & Owes Money to Co COVERDALE, Pa—A miner who! worked for the Pittsburgh Terminal | Ccal Co. in the No. 8 mine here back in 1927, and leit be se he couldn't make anything and ded up by! owing the company seven dollars on the day of his Go ‘ture, came back to.work here last month. There were no jobs anywhere els After working 12 d: Statement showed $12.4 Fany immediately from the 1927 a cheshing off U Workers of e by all the workers—how he's starving the unemployed, end is a 100 per cent belly-robber, '$ were sentencd to , which means ten days in the House of Correction for each of them. ‘They will sit out their sentences, and come back stronger than ever the next time to lead the unemployed worke1 Unemployed Branch No. 1 will bring back masses of workers to this ation and force these starvers of tae workers to feed them, The man- America dues from his pey and other|ager of this station gets $350 2 mine expenses, he ended up oncej month; his assistant $250; and others move by owing the company money.| in the station get from $150 to $200 Pulled down the speaker, attacked the ' a month, his p The com- ted the $7 Police Attack Holland Jobless Unemployed workers of the work- ing-class section of Amsterdam, Hol- land, defied and battled police in a demonstration against discriminatory rules in the payment of unemploy- ment insurance funds, according to @ dispatch in the New York Times. Communists were the acknowledged leaders of the demonstration the dis- patch says. Police attacked the crowd with swords and revolvers and ihjured sev- eral unemployed workers, Arrests of Several leAding workers followed. The discriminatory practice of making the unemployed prove their identification twice a day as a method of blacklisting militant work- ers, aroused the resentment of the masses of unemployed workers, Masses Force Action on Secret Wickersham ‘Mooney Report’ WASHINGTON, Dec. 20-Atter | thay tua the way the Mooney-Billings trials National Hunger March put forward| were conducted were “inadequate to the demand here in its demonstra- | Prevent injustice.” ‘The Wickersham report was never te Cc is~ ere eee’: Mnearenaen. Opn ens | published as it contained some more sion report on the Mooney cease, | proof of the crass frame-up of which was suppressed by | President | Moon: or Walker anid Frank P. Hoover, and after a whole series cf | walsh in their trip to California were mass militant demonstrations, a silent on the’ Wickersham report. Tom Mooney in a telegram to the Hunger March urged them to make this one of their slogans, which the Hunger Marchers immediately did. In a teelgraim to the Labor Sports Union Mooney cgain siressed this demand. A yote on the resolution is coming up Monday. The danger is that the report, if it is published, will be garbled by the Hoover forces. group of three senators in Washing- ton moved to obtain from the Pres dent the secret, report on the Mooney- Billings case, ‘The motion in the Senate, however, does not provide for the immediate publication of this report which the Wickersham commission itself said was “shocking to one’s sense of jus- tice,” The Fenore in eh said that 23 Delegates, 7 Proth A. F. of L. Unions at Big, aEM; | TAKE FOOD |Breadlines Close, But Unemployed Refuse | to Starve Fight Forced Labor |Mass for ‘Demands at Duluth City Hall DULUTH, Minn, |December 20.—Driven by hunger, 450 work- jers stormed a large grocery store here, in {search of food after the bread- |line at the “Bethel” was closed to them. Mr. be in charge of the mission had blockaded the Dining Room, with the aid of police, after the work- had refused to accept matuin laid down to t cut wood for the miscrabl or starve. an. ulti- When the workers received a nega- tive answer to their request for food several at~ ning room of the big- ed to help f charge it i proces to the City, As a result cf this Wm. Carch an unemployed worker was arrested and sent to the for two months. The work Duluth are preparing a mass demonstration to demand his immediate release and at the same time to proic the miserable conditions ed on the unemployed And s ng workers. At this demonstr hey will also raise the demand for te relief and for unemployment surance, On Tuesday, December 15th, the unemployed workers of the Bethel and those living at the Old City Hall, set aside as sleeping quar- ters for the unemployed demonstra- ted at the Court-house square against forced labor and the miserable treat- ment that they were receiving amongst which was the cutting down of their meals to two meals a day A delegation was elected by these workers to go to the Mayor the City Council to present their de- mands. After a considerable dis- cussion before this body, we find that despite the harsh answer given to the delegation, that the council appointed itself as a commitiee to investigate the conditions at the “Bethel” and at the same time appropriated an ad- ditional $13,000 for relief work, ares DULUTH, Minn., Dec. 18.—The un- employed ‘kers housed in the ver- min infested ‘‘Bethel” have gone out on strike. In spontaneous protest against the dirf, the hrorible food, and the slave driving forced labor, 450 have refused to work. The “Bethel” is supported by the community chert. Another unemployed and evicted housed in the “Old City Ha groups are forced to cut hours, without pey, in return for @ little thin blue soup, oatmeal, bread and coffee, of such quality that the pigs would turn up their noses at {t, The men are forced to sleep on the concrete floor. In neither place are there enough blankets to go around. Recently, the three meals, bad as they are, were cut to two meals a day. Recently. too, Grubbe, the man- ager of “Bethel,” made a speech over the radio imploring people to refuse to give anything to individual unem- wood for ployed ¥, ‘s, and force them all to “Bethel.” He lied about f ing the men got bacon, hot ¢: ete., which they never ses. het onstretion in Court where J. Cogan cf the Unity League spoke, and headed a committee of six which placed de- mands b the ecting mayor and city counci!, for three squ: meals a day, beds evd bedding, washing facilitics, ro ¢ iminaticn, 50 cents en hour f ving wood, ete, The committee was met by Insults and a whitew ng of the “Bethel” by local capi politicians, Cogan was “held for questioning” by the po- lice, at orders of the active mayor. The workers massed outside deme onstrated until he was released. ‘The strike in the “Bethel” followed. Organization of the unemployed is going ahead rapidly, sue Leaflets, Call Readers’ Meetings and Start New Daily Worker Groups!