The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 11, 1932, Page 1

L OME TO GERMAN STRIKE MEET TONITE 8p.m., MANHATTAN LYCEUM WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central . rok aie Section of | the Communist International) Norker unist Porty U.S.A. Rinumist GATHER WITH YOUR SHOPMATES IN “FRIENDS OF TH ER” GROU READ, DISCU GE E DAILY WORK- BS FOR THE “DAILY WORKER.” ENTER SOCIALIST COMPETITION IN DRVE FOR 5,000 “DAILY WORKER” SUBS. — Vol. IX, No. 9 an Mmtereé as second-class matter at the Post Office at’New York, N. ¥.. ander the act of March 3 1970 NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY uy 1932 ee crry EDIT! The Wolves Close in on China’ MERICAN workers, above all others, have the task of freeing themselves from the fog of capitalist lies about the Manchurian events. Why? Because the American capitalists, the same capi- talists who are robbing them in the factories, who are now engaged in a program of starvation and repression against them, have been the dominating imperialist power behind the Nanking “government” that has massacred hundreds of thousands of workers and peasants of China. As a result, the Chinese masses are rising in popular revolytion against the Nanking butchers and against the whole tribe of Kuomintang militarists and lackeys of imper- ialism who have opened the way for a complete dismember- ment of which the Japanese seizure of Manchuria is but a part. It is in the light of this beginning of an outright dis- memberment of China, and the imperialist fear of the na- tional revolutionary war for independence under lead of the increasingly powerful Soviet Government of China, that the Stimson note to Japan must be understood. The Stimson note to Japan was, be it distinctly remem- bered, also a note to China. For American imperialism, which has held the Nanking regime of Chiang Kai-shek in the hollow of its hand, to send a note of warning that it, sup- posedly ruling China, will be held responsible by America for “Chinese independence,” would seem to insert a note of the ridiculous into a situation which is serious enough to re- quire solemnity. But it must be remembered that “Chinese indepen- Jence” is the historic slogan behind which American imper- ism operates as the looter and enslaver of China. And it must be ulso remembered that the emphatic point in Stim- son’s note to Japan—and China, is the insistence on the “open door” policy. This insistence has come about, not entirely as a result of Japan’s military movement southward into China outside churia, although this is an additional factor; but be- sause the clear collap.e of Chiang Kai-shek’s dictatorship in the Nanking government has left America’s influence. at Nanking decidedly weakened and Japanese influence greatly advanced as shown by the rise of Eugene Chen and other obviously Japanese agents. Aside froni American imperialism’s insistence in Stim- son's note to Japan, that Japan stick to the understanding of devoting its military activities to making Manchuria a pase of operations for war on the Soviet Union, the Stimson note to China is an open expression of American imperialism that it intends to intervene directly with its own armed forces, in view of the fact that it can no longer rely upon its fading power in Nanking. The Stimson note to China is, therefore, a deliberate step of American imperialism to enter into the armed strug- gle for the suppression of the Chinese revolution and the dismemberment of China with its own armed forces. It is ~ directly to: -ard war! ‘The capitalist press, that covers all this maneuver with a halo of “efforts for peace,” must not blind with its dema- gogy the revolutionary workers of America to the fact that armed intervention by the Unitde States in China is pre- paring. Above all, American workers must understand that, al- though U. S. armed forces are sent to China under the ex- euse of “saving China from Japanese aggression”—these American armed forces are to be used AGAINST SOVIET CHINA, against the anti-imperialist war for independence of the Chinese masses; as a strengthening, moreover, of the base in China for the iraperialist war on the Soviet Union which is openly predicted for this Spring! Workers! The same capitalists who are slashing your wages, who are starving you by millions by refusal of un- employment insurance, who are attacking you on all fronts, are closing in on China in an attempt to halt the gigantic revolutionary upheaval of the Chinese workers and peasants, YOUR ALLIES IN THE STRUGGLE! The defeat of American imperialism in China by the heroic workers and peasants led by the Communist Party of China, will be a blow to Wall Street and its servants at Washington who arrogantly carry out a program of hunger and repression against you, the workers of America! Let no February 4th demonstration pass without rais- tng, beside the demand for unemployment insurance, the de- mand of “Hands Off China!” Demand the withdrawal of U. 8. troops from China! Let Wall Street know that Amer- ican workers stand in solidarity with the revolutionary masses of China! In defense of the Soviet Union! Against imperialist war! SCOTTSBORO AND KENTUCKY | CALL FOR WIDENING EFFORT IN DAILY WORKER CAMPAIGN HE Daily Worker subscriptions that came in on Friday brought the campaign for 5,000 12-month sub- scriptions up to 16.5 per cent of the goal. Only one-sixth of the distance has been covered. * We shalJl never reach the goal if we keep to the pre- sent pace. Last Friday only 292 months of subs came in, as gom- pared with 501 months on Thursday, and 518 months on Monday. Cleveland did pretty well on Friday with 78 months, Chicago with 68 months, and Philadelphia with 51 months. District 17, Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky came through with 12 months of subs, but the other districts in general slackened up at the end of the week. This week will see a new wave of mass demonstrations to free the Scottsboro boys. This week will see the growth of the Kentucky strike. This week is the strart of the Party mass recruiting drive. Tie up the drive with the International Labor Defense fight for the Scottsboro boys. Tie up the drive with the Workers International Relief campaign to send relief to the Kentucky strikers COAL OPERATORS’ JUDGE REFUSES PROPERTY RELIEF BREAK-DOWN IN N.Y. PART OF NATIONAL DRIVE AGAINST JOBLESS NEW YORK.—Squabbling over who should | get the greater share of the graft coming out of city finances, Wall Street, Morgan & Co., or Tammany Hall and the a new attack has been lief in all cities in the United will be cut down. February 4th—National admitting that the bankers insist on wiping out any form of city unem- ployment relief, shows the tremen- dous importance of the forthcoming demonstrations on February 4th, National Unemployment arabe) Day. Mayor Walker in his telegram to Senator Copeland requests that the leading cities in the United States be allowed to borrow for city financing out of the $2,000,000,000 Reconstruc- tion Finance Corporation which the Hoover government is proposing. ‘These funds were supposed to go for ‘paying profits t to railroad stock and bond holders? ~"~ Faced with a decline in city in- come, Jimmy Walker now requests that some of this money also go in | the city treasury to pay out the huge graft that Tammany dispenses. Bankers Demand Relief Be Cut For the past week the city offi- clals have-been meeting in the of- fice of Morgan & Co, in Wall St. The first demand that Morgan & 000 Ioan to the city was all city re~ lief bureaus be closed down. The city, through Mayor Walker, imme- diately complied with this request and shut down relief. The same action had been taken | many months before in Detroit, when (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) unemployed with the great possibility that unemployment re- Unemployment The latest telegram of Mayor Walker to Senator Copeland, Co, made in return for a $90,000,- | Jimmie Walker regime, opened up against the States, no matter how meagre, Insurance Day. © Jobless Army Shows | | Big Rise in N. Y.; All Records Broken | ALBANY, N. Y¥., Jan. 10.—Un- employment is still increasing at a rapid rate, the latest figures is- sued here by Frances Perkins, In- dustrial Commissioner for the state of New York, show. More |than 1 per cent of the factory workers lost their jobs in Decem- ber, bringing the number of fac- tory workers alone in the staet of New York out of jobs to’ over 400,000. i Miss Perkins stated that since 1929 these has been a tremendous downward sweep in employment, the latest figures breaking all rec- | ords for unemployment. The un- employment index, which takes 1925-27 as 100, is now at 68. This shows there is a drop of 32 per); cefit in employment below the | 1925-27 figures, or about 45 per cent below the high point of 1929. According to these figures nearly ; jhalf the workers in New York are totally without jobs. : The New York figures are an} accurate guide for conditions in all industrial states. inces as imperialists push plans Japanese troops moving on Harbin United States pushes plans for mobil of maneuvers in the Pacific. against Sovietism.” Koumintang Retired Japanese lieutenant-general the Chinese masses. Japanese bomb town in advance on France and England turn down plea Chinese Red Army Within 20 Miles of Hankow; Imperialists Rush Forces for Intervention LATEST DEVELOPMENTS Japanese at gate of Inner China, French troeps in Southern Chinese prov- | Stimson note recalls Japan to original role of spearhead in armed in- tervention against the Soviet Union. Japanese diplomat declares that Japan in Manchuria is “world’s defense Chinese masses are turning to Communist. and United States over the spoils of Chin2. Vandervelde, socialist leader, again defends Japanese imperialists against Manchurian Railway admits Japan plans to seize all Manchuria. sure on Japan to safeguard United States control of Inner China. * * * BULLETIN for division of China, | and the Chinese Eastern Railway as lization of army and navy on pretext | paper warns imperialist masters that sees war “inevitable” between Japan Harbin. Japanese manager of South of Stimson for joint diplomatic pres- ‘The Chinese Red Army is advancing on Hankow, important strategic and industrial city on the Yangtze River. On Saturday the Red Army occupied the town of Kwangpei, about 20 miles north of Hankow, Al- though the town of Shekow, between Kwangpei and Hankow, is occu- pied by strong Kuomintang forces, the American consul at Hankow, fearing that the Nanking troops will not be able to stop the advance of the Red Army, has ordered all American missionaries to withdraw \to Hankow. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Cleveland Candidate, Ford, the day’: day the credited demagogue, F. W. Walz, was the employment insurance and immediate relief, for Negro rights | and against evictions and wage cuts; or submission to the increasing hunger, misery and terror of capitalism. the main issue in the Cleveland Mayoralty elections. That this is the choice:confronting ®-~ raya candidate for mayor, spoke from the same platform as the’ capitalist can- didates, Morgan, Miller and Witt, at Gives Program Over Radio CLEVELAND, Ohio.—Either a Communist fight for un-| This is | | workers of Cleveland in Tues- jailed to show up. | 's elections, was made. as clear as All the speeches were broadcast when I. O. Ford, Communist | °Ve" station WHK. Through radio ee press the Communist message | | reached hundreds of thousands of Cleveland workers, who thus had an | opportunity of comparing the Com- | City Club on Saturday. The dis- Ms ty “h S| munist program of working-class onky capitalist candidate who! «convinUkD ON PAGE ‘TmMaEe HE Daily Worker today believes it necessary to speak with the greatest frankness in regard to the ve jous shortcomings in the agitation, organization, and in the general work for making February 4 a decisive point in the struggle against the Hoover Hunger Program. (To- morrow we will deal with the weaknesses in support of the Kentucky strike.) The advisers of the capitalist class are appare nily more alert than some of our own comrades. In proof of this we publish the following excerpt from a confidential agency serving the interests of the biggest capitalists: Whaley-Eaton Service American Letter No, 696 January 2, 1931 Washington, D.C. “UNEMPLOYED. So far there has been amazingly little talk or interest, amnog the rank and file of Congress in the matter of direct Federal appropriations for unem- ployment and charity relief. The LaFollette sub-commit- tee, howveer, is building up a spectacular record of alleged distress and need. The sub-committee and the full com- mittee on Manufactures are both hand-picked and meas- ures proposing heayy appropriations are elmost certain to be reported to the Senate. UNDER EXISTING CONDI- TIONS AND SENTIMENT, ANYTHING VERY EX- TRAVAGAN™ COULD BE SIDE-TRACKED. WIDE- SPREAD DEMONSTRATIONS OR BREAD-RIOTS DUR- ING JANUARY AND FEBRUARY, HOWEVER, COULD CHANGE THiS PICTURE VERY QUICKLY.” This statement points out clearly the decisive part played by the organization of the employed and unem- ‘ployed workers and their mass struggles in determining the extent of the cohcessions the capitalist class makes to the masses. It is necessary now to state very sharply: (1) The Communist fractions in the Unemployed Councils and their leading committees have not succeeded in dev eloping any serious mass agitational campaign since the National Hunger Marchers returned to their respective cities. This is shown by the fa-t that only in the state of California in the lest few days has there been a state hungermarch or any other form of mass activity and this coincides with the return of the Hunger March delegation which had the longest journey to make and consequently arrived latest. (2) The campaign for signatures in support of the workers’ unemployment insurance billy providing for un- employment insurance at full wages has hardly begun. There are practically no reports from the districts in con- nection with this central point of the struggle for unem- ployment insurance. (3) The drive into the local unions of the national and international unions affiliated to the American Fed- eration of Labor for the repudiation of the decision of the Vancouver convention against unemployment insurance, and for a referendum of the membership of the American Federation of Labor unions has been begun only in a few cities. But the unanimously favorable votes of the members of big American Federation of Labor local unions, where- ever this issue has been presented clearly by delegations of the Unemployed Councils, serves to show the tremen- dous opportunity right in the A. F. of L. for mobilizing support of, the Unemployed Councils and their workers’ unemployment insurance bill that is being neglected. The responsibility for the sag*in the struggle since the National Hunger March—a sag due solely to the lack of systematic work by our Party members in the unem- ployed organizations, which has created the opportunity for such betrayals of the needs and struggles of the un- employed millions as the “Father” Cox “hunger march,” is a responsibility for which we will and should, be called to account by the American working class. Social dema- gogy now has developed into organizations because of our shortcomings. The Communists in the National Committee of the Unemployed Councils must also take responsibility for this delay and the failure to carry forward the tremen- dous impetus given to the struggle for unemployment in- surance and immediate cash winter relief py, the National Hunger March. Agitational and propaganda literature of the finest kind remains in the print shop. Districts do not place their orders for this literature—perhaps the best of its kind ever gotten out in the United. States—so that the inertia of the center and the districts results in cumula- tive checking of the struggles for’ which hundreds of thousands of employed and uneniployed American work- ers are waiting. In no sease can it be said that the workers themselves have retired from the battle front. It is our leadership that is not responding quickly and strongly enough to the daily increasing needs of the growing army of the unem- ployed masses and of the part-time workers whose time of employment is steadily cut down as their wages are likewise reduced. We have three weeks to'make February 4 really a National Day of struggle against unemployment. We will do it, but there must be no more delay and every available force must be set in motion for this task on every front of the struggle. “For Clients Only” Copyright cane ege ene «RARE pr ares BAIL TO KENTUCKY STRIKE | Illinois ORGANIZERS GET TO WORK FOR FEB. 4 yHWA LOCALS, FAMOUS WRITERS JOIN PROTEST; “RELIEF BIG STRIKE NEED Kentueky Coai Strike » NEW YORK.—From the | widest sour protests keep pouring in against the raid and | arrests made at the Pineville, | were definite! Union and the’ arrest Taub, torney Miners Allan ho came to defend izes. These arrests made in an attempt t of 10,000 Kentucky- against starvation break the strik Tennesee miners and terror, Lecal unions 2707 and 2219 of the | United Mine Workers in Southern | was signed by | | | | | le. | | (of rousing |greeted the words of young) | of misery, | ease, Powell described the fighting | spirit of the heroic Kentucky min- Ilinois, representing 1,200 members, unanimously adopted resolutions “vigorously protesting against, the terror campaign against the Ken- tucky strikers.” The miners further declared: “We protest against the arrest of the lawyer defending the strike Jeaders and demand the-re= lease of all arrested.” The telegram Joe J. Laurenti, president of Local 2219, and Sam Yalier, president of local 2707. Famous Writers Protest Vigorous protests signed by Prof. | Geo. S. Counts, J: Haynes Holmes, ‘Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Ander- | son and John Dos Passos of the Na- | | tional Committee for the Defense of | Political Prisoners, llth St. and Broadway, New York and other men |prominent in the literary, educa- | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) STRIKE AID KE AID MEET PLEDGES SUPPORT TO FEBRUARY 4th Struggle "for Jobless) Insurance YORK. — Drenching 1 to dampen the spirit solidarity which NEW Powell, striking miner who spoke at the Star Casino meeting | here on Friday night. Telling a story poverty, hunger and <’:- ers. Resolutions of solidarity with the miners were read and adopted. Gov- ernor Laffoon of Kentuck was sent| a telegram demanding the immediate release of all Workers International Relief representatives and other working class leaders from jails in} Kentucky. Endorsing the Feb. 4th demonstra- tion against hunger, a resolution was passed showing the unity of the struggles of the Kentucky-Tennessee | miners and the fight for unempioy- | resolution | ment insurance. The reads :— “The brave strike of the Ken- tacky miners comes at a time when all workers unemployed and em- ployed are organizing their forces (CONTINUED ON CAGE THREE) Miners Back 'G headquarters of the Na-) International Labor | Gunmen Seize WIR |Soup Kitchen Trying to Break Strike 2 More Movers Jailed Fear Demonstration; Postpone Hee aring PINEVII LLE, Ky., Jan. 10.—Juc Van Beber, following the policy of the coal oper- jators who are at- tempting to break the strike of the 10,000 Kentucky-Ten- | hesee miners is doing what he |can to keep the leaders of the National Miners Union, and Allen Taub, Interna- | tional Labor Defense Attorney, in | jail by refusing property bail. Judge | Vai ‘Béber's purpose is to these |Jeaders in prison by blocking their ; defense as much as ‘possible in the | hope that in this way the coal op- erators can behead the strike, Seize Soup Kitchen, As part of this scheme, the Harlan | County deputized gun thugs yester- | day surrounded the Workers Inter- | national Relief soup kitchen near | Boaretree and took it over. This is Part of the previous attacks against | the soup kitchen when five of them were blown up and two miners killed j at the Swimming pool soup kitchen. | Every effort is being made to erip- |i the strike py keeping the leaders In jail and harrassing the Workers | rare Relief food distribu< tion. In the face of these attacks, relief - is needed more than ever. More arrests are taking piace. Harvey Collettee, a native miner, section organizer of the National Miners Union was arrested at Pine- ville on Saturday. tne cnarges | Sgainst him are unknown. | Frank Mason, another miner, was ar- | rested Friday for distributing leafs lets of the National Miners Union. : Postpone Hearing. | “The hearing of the 10 arrested was | postponed again to Tuesday, as the County officials, and their coal op- erator backers, feared a hu onstration of miners, As | Move the officials tried to have the case heard on Friday, a day before t was set officially. But this move was defeated. Now, new obstacles are being put in the way by refusal te take property bail. The Chicago District of the Inter- national Labor Defense has sent At- | torney Dave Bentall to Pineville, Ky. to help defend the arrested workers, Rush Relief. The strike leaders in jail, and the rank and file organizers through- out the strike territory declare that more relief must be sent in to help spread the strike. Food and cloth- ing are needed badly. The Work~- ers Internationa! Relief urges all workers to send food and clothing to the W. I. R. warehouse, 145 Pine Street, Pineville, Kentucky, FIVE THOUSAND DAILY WORKER. 12-MONTH SUBSCRIPTIONS BY JANUARY 8th! ~ J Solidarity Mass Meet Tonite! for Striking German Seamen NEW YORK.—A mass strike and solidarity meeting of the striking German seamen together with the workers of New York will be held at the Manhattan Lyceum at 66 E. 4th Street, tonight at 8 p. m. sharp. The crews of three German ships, who struck against a 10 per cent wage cut ordered by the Bruening government and who were taken prisoners by the U. 8. Coast Guard at the behest of the German Consul, will rport and a strike vote will be taken. Wm. Z. Foster, I. Amter and Rey Hudson, who recently returned from the Soviet Union, will speak, Prolet-Buehn, and the Red Front Band will entertain,