The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 26, 1931, Page 5

SET NEW SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE PACE, ISSUE DAILY WORKE oR NEW 3 JAPANESE PEASA WITHDRAWAL FROM MANCHURIA (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Japanese by the U.S. Ambassador Forbes in Tokio expressed “‘apprehen- sion” lest “untoward “events” might develop as a result of. thé Japanese drive on Chinchow:-A Tokyo dispatch declares that the’ memorandum does not cite the Niné Power Pact guar- | anteeing the political and» adminis- trative integrity of China; but quotes Stimson’s statement» supporting the League of Nations. Council. resolution on China. That *sesolution. officially legalized. the Japamese seizure of }enchuria and prevared the way for the partition of China. The United States is therefore.simply telling Ja- pan that United .States support of ~ Jape aggressions is,,confined to certain limits. The memorandum, is».clearly a warning to Japan) that she can go thus far and no} further, that Wall Street while endorsing .;the re and loot of Manchuria and Japan's war cf extermination -against the Manchurian masses, but will oppose any: challenge to, her patamount po- sition in Kuomintang China. This is sensed by the Tokyo correspondent of the Times, who asks: “Are the powers reserving for that moment some “stronger weapon than expression§ of ‘concern, or are they engaged in’ face-saving ges- tures? Time will tell whether Sec- Stimson’ is Saying’ more to sador Debuchi ‘than he in hiss memorandum to a ae this comnection: cations dé! that will be continued in the future as occasion warrants, but no new diplo- matic step is ediately in prospect cording to assertions at, the State Department today. “Indications continue that the de- | partment may consider some further move when the..present. Japanese drive has matured. Whether this will be ecincident with the expected fall of Chinchow has not been disclosed.” The Japanese haye landed troops at Shanhaikwan,,near. the end of the Great Wall. of. China. A large naval force is being. kept within striking distance of Shanhaikwan. Partisan Troops Slow Up. Japanese Adyance. Fighting . continues ._ throughout, Manchuria, with the partisan troops developing 9n increasingly harassing guerilla werfare against the Japan- ese invaders. The, Japanese advance has been held up.by. these troops at the Liao River. gspatch statees, in ‘this policy | SDEMAND | Japanese troops yesterday occupied Tienchwangtai and the village of Tai- tchuchen, two miles from Tsingshan. The capture of these places was ac- complished only after severe fighting with the heroic tisan troops. A battle occurred miles northeast of Yi with the Japanese claim- i tory. Partisan troops made a counter- ainst the | se troops holding Tienchwang- ial. A Mukden dispatch reports: “Thus far the Japanese have en- | countered only what they call ban- | dits or guerrillas. ! Kuomintang Prates “Peace On Earth” | While War Rages. This is further proof of the traitor- ous co-operation of the Kuomintang Officials with the imperialists in their moves for the epartition of China. A Shanghai dispatch reports increasing | | unxest in that city as reports of the | Japanese advance and the heroic re- sistance of the partisan troops ar- Bias “While a green garlanded elec- | trie sign illuminates Shanghai's | Bund and proclaims ‘Peace on | Earth and Good Will to Men’, this | city is agitated and deeply puzzled | | | by contradictory reports of bitter fighting proceeding in Manchuria | westward of the South Manchuria Railway Zone.” Kuomintang Speeds New Fascist Government. The Kuomintang conference sit- ting in. Nanking is expected to make an announcement tomorrow on the personnel of the new fascist govern- ment being organized by the Canton and Nanking cliques of feudal land- owners an dimperialist lackeys. Re- ports persist that Chiang Kai-shek and T. V. Soong will again head the | new fascist dictatorship which the } Kuomintang traitors are trying to put | | over against the Chinese masses and | the tremendous anti- imperialist, anti- | Kuomintang mass upsurge. An alter- |Mative plan is to window dress the new fascist dictatorship with Dr, Sun Fo, son of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen, in the hope that this wil Ideceive the masses as to the true nature of the new government as a fascist instru- ment of the imperialists and feudal landowners. Japanese Peasants to Support Chinese Masses A dispatch from Berlin reports that & peasant congress in Toyama Pro- vince, Japan, adopted a resolution de- manding the withdrawal of thee Jap- anese troops from Manchuria and calling on the soldiers to turn their guns against their class enemies on tehir return to Japan. SAYS BANKERS HOPE 10 QUIET MASS DEMAND FOR HIS FREEDOM {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ernor represent the largest and most rful corporations: in ‘California. Justice: Matt Sullivan, dying’ the. ‘record’, is a of JudveiHenshaw, who pelled to--resign:.from the a Supreme Court because it oven that he-was:the chief ad- of the frame-up crew. fellow members on the Su- preme Court benchohave never -for- f riends» for the. exposure he mask off-Henshaw. At haye scught to obtain revenc? for the proof we furnished that the California Supreme Court did the bidding of the corporations. “Now Henshaw's good friend Sulli- van is given the ‘opportunity to ‘vin- dicate’ him, Are.there.any workers who have doubts.regarding the out- ceme of Siens ‘study of the rec- ord?’” Mooney In Fighting Mood. Tom Mooney is'in a fighting mood. He is determined to expose fully the rottenness of the forces responsible for his continued’imprisonment. “Do not forget,” *he further stated, “that not only are the -bankers.and indus- trialists keeping: me.in San Quentin, Their allies, the leaders of the A. F. of L. are also doing their ‘bit’, “Tell the workers ,about the latest action of President Green, At this time when I need the united support of all workers, Green is sending a let- ter to all State Federations and city Jabor councils specifaclly stating that my defense is not to receive help of any kind. This deliberate stab in the back is directly “inspired by Paul Scharrenberg and other California A. F. of L. officials who have been ORGS JADVERTISE Your Your “affairs” Your ape helping to keep me in San Quentin. Hoover Aids Mooney’s Enemies, Naturally, Scharrenberg’s good friends, Matty Woll and Victor Olander, are helping him as much as they can, Did they not see to it that the recent convention of the A, F. of L. at Vancouver adopted a reso- lution whose purport is to eep me in prison? The officialdom of the A. F. of L. knew where their own interests lay. So long as they betray the workers, they will receive suitable rewards. One of the men who fought against me for years has very recently re- ceived an adequate reward from President Hoover, Ornborn, the In- ternational President of the Cigar Makers’ Union, has just been ap- pointed to one of Hoove ortant commissions, Hoover, ¢ nian, knows how to reward © ally and to set before the ¢ es of other A. F, of L, betraye possi- bilities of future juicy plums if they continue to do their treacherous work,” Mooney’s Militant Message. Concluding the interview, Tom sent this message to all workers: “Now is the time for action. The workers must demand that Rolph give an im- mediate answer to the demands for my pardon. There must be no de- lay. Capitalism is face to face with the worst crisis in its history, Work- ers must take advantage of this situa- tion. I ask for immediate and con-° tinued agitation for my pardon be- cause I realize that through the years I have become a symbol to the workers. When the workers agitate for my freedom, at the same time they must demand that the murderous system that permits tens of millions to slowly die of starvation be ended, Theworking class must protest not only my own continued imprison- ment, and that of Billings, but the frame-ups of the Harlan miners, the Scottsboro boys, the Imperial alley | banquet to be held on Sunday De- | been cut to one-third of what was Powers, Just Out of Jail to Be Gereted With Banquet Sun. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 24.— M. Powers, secretary of the Trades Union Uni League, Philadelphia | District has. been released from the Allentown jail today after ser 3 months in jail. This release was effected thru the joint effort of the TUUL and the ILD much before the jail term wes supposed to ex! Powers served this sentence for t | participation in the recent strike of | | seven thousand silk workers of Allen- | town. The workers of Philadelphia will give Powers a fine reception at a cember 27th, 8 p. m, at GIRARD MANOR, HALL, 911 W. Girard Ave. All workers of the city are request- ed to come and and greet comrade Powers. ‘MEET JAN.10 TORATIFY RED CANDIDATES | Milwaukée Campaign | for City Officials Starting Now MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 25.—The Milwaukee section committee of the Communist Party has called for work- ers’ organizations to send delegates to a ratification conference of the Communist candidates in the city and county elections coming up before long. The conference will be January 10 at 2 p.m. at Workers’ Center, 1207 North 6th St. Socialist Party Mayor Hoan seeks re-election after putting through a budget giving property owners lower taxes than ever before—all at the expense of the unemployed. The ap- propriations for outdoor relief have given in 1931. There is appropriated in 1932 only $760,000 for 70,000 unem- ployed, less than $11 each, for the ‘The Communist Party has candi- dates for mayor, aldermen, supervis- ors and other offices, and asks rati- fication and support, also financial contributions for their campaign. ‘They run on a platform of working class against capitalist class, and will fight for unemployment insurance, $150 cash winter relief, no forced la- bor, seven hour day with no cut in wages, for organization of fighting unions and unemployed councils, against war preparations and-for an end to capitalism. State Bureau Funds Give Jobs to Only 50,000 Unemployed NEW YORK.—J. I. Strauss, chair- man of the State Temporary Emer- gency Relief Administration issued a smug statement yesterday, in which he announced that all that was go- ing to be given by his organization has been given now to those state, county and municipal emergency work projects that had been found worthy. The total handed out for this he put at $6,192,490, Harry L. Hopkins, executive director of the administration calculated that this would give jobs to 50,000 out of the million and half unemployed in the state, It was particularly pointed out that airport construction was a big item in this work, That means war pre- parations, and women whose only crime was that they tried to help their own class. “This is the time that tests us all. Courage, action, determination are needed now as never before, Work- ers everywhere must rise and meet the challenge of the master class. We can win—we must win.” to Blow You will find it warm and cozy Camp Nitgedaiget You can ar of in Lg proletarian comrad a osph prov in the it Wilt also find it well heated with steam heat, hot water and many other im- The food is clean and especially well prepared, SPECIAL ware FOR WEEK- A private automobile leaves the Cooperative Col for the Camp everyday at 10 a. m. for the price of $1.50, Thursday before Christ. mas car leaves 2 p.m. and 7 p.m, For ee information cau the— COOPERATIVE OFF) prisoners, the Centralia workers and the scores of other imprisoned men Bronx Park East, Tel.—Esterbrook 8-1400 50 Kant 13th Street THE NEW YORK TIMES recently said: “A very important novel latent among the potential- ities of Communist-capitalist conflict... yet unborn.” The New York Times Is Wrong THE ROAD ‘A Romance of the Proletarian Revolution By pone MARLEN (Spiro) Published Workers Book Shop * P.O.B. 67, Station D, N.Y, IU. S. DELEGATION TO THE USS RIN |PHILA. SATURDAY To Be Welesmed at Mass Meet at Grand Manor Hall PHILADELPHIA—The Ame workers’ delegation, sponsored by the Friends: of the Soviet Union, which returned to New York Dec. 23 after an extensive tour of the Soviet Union will be welcomed at a mass meeting and demonstration at the Girard Manor Hall, Syenth and Girard Ave., Saturday, Dec. 26, at 8 p.m The delegates, who came mostly from the heavy industries and were elected from the unions and mass organizations, will report on what they saw in the Soviet Union, tell- ing of the living and working condi- tions of the workers and comparing the Five-Year Plan with the Hooyer | Hunger Plan. A specitl feature of the meeting will be the New York Red Front Band which on Dec. 7 played the Interna- tionale on the capitol grounds in Washington, D. C, Norman Tallen- tire, one of the delegates, a building trades worker and member of the Na- tional Committeee of the Friends of the Soviet Union, and Roy Hudson, a seaman and chairman of the delega- tion, will be the main speakers. opportunity for the workers of Phila- delphia to get a first hand report from American workers on the condi- tions in the U.S.S.R., as contrasted to conditions in the U.S.A. Demon- strate your support to the Workers’ Fatherland by attending this meeting. Remember! Saturday, Dec. 26, Grand Manor Hall. This meeting affords an excellent | STIR UP FORCED LABOR” WAR CRY | AGAINST SOVIETS, |Law Effective J Jan. 1 Is Provocative Step WASHINGTON, of the “forced campaign y; Dec, 25. labo:” anti heard louder than ever on Jan, 1 wien t U. 8. treasury denartment vuts i effect the tariff so-called purporting to forbi goods made by tured labor t of | on-| The Fish Committee a Matthew Woll, William Green, and | the Russian white guard organiza- | tions in the United States, urged the using of this measure to ban the | import of all Soviet goods into the | United States. The fact is this meas- ure was put through mainly against | the Soviet Union, as the forced and | convict-made goods of the big im-| perialists si always let through with-- | out hitch or question. The cry of | “forced labor” in the Soviet Un: has also been convenient for the A.| F. of L. leaders who found it incon- | venient to account for the growing | | forced labor .among the Acericen | | Workers, especially among the unem- | | ployed who in many cities are forced | to work without pay. Thus far, Assistant Secretary Low- | man of the treasury department de clares the new-act on Jan. 1 will not bar all Soviet products, but also each ipment will be “judged on its ar- | vival.” In this manner, the tariff act is used as a constant threat against the Soviet Union, with the | imminent possibility of its wholesale application in preparation for war} against the workers’ fatherland. Hoover-Wall Street it has been shown by the imperialist in the imperialist embassies in the Union Unity League. in the Latest Imperialist Murder Plot ({CONTINVED FROM PAGE ONE) and its liberated working class, that in intends to make imperialist war upon the Sovite Union mean the end of capitalism, Q Once more the war danger has been shown to be real and imminent; be fought daily; it has been shown to a matter of the every day politics of the imperialist countries; it has been shown to be a danger but breeds The imperialist war danger, growing driectly out of the world crisis of capitalism, carries with it the threat of miseries a thousand-fold worse than those now endured by the millions upon millions of the unemployed whom American capitalism has thrown out to starve. answers to the demands of hungry millions whom Hoover-Wall Street government sees now as cannon-fodder of the cheapest kind. Answer the war drive by mass mobilization against the Hoover Hunger program, by militant struggle on every front against imperialist war, by building the Unemployed Councils, the revolutionary unions of the Trade Defend the Soviet Union against the billionaire robbers of the masses and their government. Join the Communist Party which leads the fight against war and against the whole Hoover Hunger program! Government’s Part murder plot to be a danger that must Soviet Union. | ‘The war plots are | | Aunt Molly Jackson and Jim Grace to Be In Cleveland Dec, 29 CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec., 24, 1931— AUNT MOLLY JACKSON from Straight Creek, Ky., the singer of the Ky. Miners’ wives Hungry Blues, will be in Cleveland December 29th at Gardina Hall, 6025 St. Olair Aye, at 8p. m. Aunt Molly Jackson will not only sing but she will also tell the Cleve- land workers what took place in Har- lan, Ky., during the militant struggle between the miners and the local barons of Ky. She will also tell how the children of the miners are treated by the Red Cross. At this same meeting, Jim Grace, an ex-official of the United Mine/ Workers Union of America and now and organizer for the National Min- ers Union will also speak and relate the struggles of the Kentucky miners. | This meeting is being sponsored by | the International Labor Defense as part of the campaign that this orga- nization is carrying on for the relief of the political prisoners and their dependents, WORKMEN’S SICK AND Death Benefit: $4,635,677.04 both classes. CLASS A: at the age of 44. CL. Parents may insure thelr children Death Benefit according to age $20 to gus, CSE Bane respectively, another forty. wes. Bick Beats for women: for grother forty weeks, Name City and State .........000.. For one year $6.00 ($8.00 |Red Star Press OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ORGANIZED 188{—INCORPORATED 1899 Main Office: 714-716 Seneca Ave., Ridgewood Sta., Brooklyn, N. 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DEATH BENEFIT FUND Sick Benefit: $11,453,774.93 $230, in vase of death up to the age ef 18 in Manhattan and Bronx) | eembe: SATURDA AY, DECEMBER 26, 1931 Page Five_ a 5 ee. Passes Try to Stir Up Sheoting {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) and the s'col pigeons get that va Pes that ther ing on one the Yor, PINEVILLE, Ky., Dec governor of entuck be held that Sund unde* the leadership of the National Miners Union, i calling attention to the fact that Sheriff Blair of Hi County, head of an army of comy gunmen, declared he wou!d not mit this meeting. to Governor Lafo F kfort, Ky., tod: per- sent telegram was your attotion to an open mass meetiny it will hold at Wallins Creek, Harlan County, Sunday, De- 7, at 9 o'clock in the morn- ing,” states the telerram. “It is re- ported that Sheriff Blair said .no mee‘'n7s will be held in Harlan County, We pretest against the con- tinued irt'midation and reivn of terror let loose by Sheriff Blair's runmen. The 12,000 ragged and hun miners and their families already tional Miners Unicn in the state of Kentucky mean to put ‘a stop to this brutal exploitation and terror- ism through a strike en January 1. “We demand the immediate with- a The National Miners Union calls in the ranks of the Na -| of Kentucky at | \ drawal of the hundreds of armed gun | thugs in Harlan County and that the thousands of dollars spent in their | maintenance go to feed the starving unemployed and their dependents, If at Sunday's meeting any, disturbance | results from the intérference by gun thugs we, the tens of thousands of miners in and outside of Harlan County, and the working class of this country shall hold you personally per- sonally responsible as governor of the state, and Sheriff Blair and the entire state and county apparatus.” The telegram was signed by the Southern District of the N.M.U. Cop- ies of this telegram were sent to Sheriff Blair and to the press. The miners are determined to break through the terrorism. They will pour into Wallins Creek for the meeting. At a meeting of 73 representatives of the miners from all over» Herlan County excellent reports were given | on the strike preparations. At Gat- | liff, the mine superintendent called a mass meeting. He said he would nego- Bargain’ Combination offer THE NEW LABOR UNITY official monthly organ of the Trade Union Unity League 10 cents a copy—$1.00 a year and the DAILY WORKER Central Organ of the COMMUNIST PARTY, USA The only working class daily newspaper in the U. S. A. BOTH FOR $6.00 for one year $8 in Manhattan and Bronx I want the LABOR UNITY and the DAILY WORKER DVAIMNE TW clncecas hers e500 6 BETOCE 5 ac. aotiviceielne aye biahe'e' City and State ..... | QO pread ¢ 0 of MASS CHALLENGES! ‘ange Gives ew Big Spurt in Jaily Worker § sub Campaign cripti by and Fr that ied lens ends of Daily Worker groups ma the pace of can gone on at a steady we can reac HE T Worker Dri districts to follow District continues to put Bu Detroit etin that is a model for all other Through this bu drawn inti rey sections Red B any compe! Jers in D. m in District sued a ck sect Dis- fron the letter “in accepting the challengé ion of a street unit, informed them our Seven, hop units,” says tionary competit if they must at least secure hope to get a Jook in they and this unit means it, th of subs, proven in the FROM Wi also comes the report ™m tionary competition beginr to s ulate the work in the drive. “Unit 6 in Milwaukée is respond- ing very well,” says the Wisconsin letter, and the revo- lutionary competition is stimulating other units to ac- in- are tivity. Some are voluntarily raising t quotas dividual comrades are challenging each other; units challenging and rechallenging. It looks as though we should make our quota. Every week, an once a week, we shall have meetings of all Daily Worker agents. heir. or even more t a bike reason Unit 6 is doing so well as because of revolutionary competition. The unit was divid into squads of three comrades each. The squads chal- lenged each other. The unit as a whole challénged Unit 3, as they have done in shop work. Unit ’6 will scon build a shop nucleus, as will Unit 3, this competition, which has greatly stimulated the « of both units.” ND over in New England the workers of Westerley R. L, have invited the socialist competition of Nev Britain and Waterbury, Conn, EXT week should be a big week ni the Daily Work drive, burgh Terminal Coal Co. called in the U.M.W.A. to help the bosses to | break the strike. cial pricex to erganizati for price list, PROL | 408 Ey 14th St, N. ¥. ©. In Your Shop, In Your Factory! Put the Drive for 5,000 12-month Subs Over the Top! For Eight Years Your Paper bas Fought for You! We Want a Six-page DAILY! tiate with the United Mine Workers of America, tional Miners. Union. He.declared the N.MU. and charterless. are using the same tactics Pennsy Daily Worker subscriptions help to vit ja Bab Shek with UEC NS: | ietia adeeb arielel. was an illegal organization | The coal operators | as in the | ania strike where the Pitts- | | | Workers Organiza Bay Mosselprom Candy! Made in Soviet Union Special sample order... 5 Ib, can golden mixture 5 Ib. can lobster candy $4.25 IGRAPHS, typewriters, se ond hand, all makes $ 5 Ib. box Moscow tris cleaned, New stenct! é $i Ib. Mimeo paper, bond AS WOGRME. 3. cee cesses $4.25 and colored, All mimeo A. ALPER-—Distributor 318 Marcy Avenue Brooklyn, New York & SUPPLY | Near Union Sq. | 4-471 ot MIMO SPRVIC! ALgona' | _ FIGHT! ‘ORGANIZE! DEMAND! For Your Own Class Paper— Help It with Subs to Fight Still Harder! 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Greet American Workers’ Delegation I ° MINERS, SEAMEN, STEEL AND METAL WORKERS VISITED Moscow, Leningrad, Baku, Nishni Novogorod, Dnieperstroi and Dunbass HEAR FIRST. 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