The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 26, 1932, Page 3

CHICAGO MAYOR ADMITS HUNGER RAMPANT; TO GET WORSE FEB. Ist (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the police to beat up and jail the unemployed. Where we had one applicant ber fore,” he goes on to say, we have five seeking help today. Asking the former contributors to charity re- Mef to give 2 few more pennies, in an effort to ward off the growing mess fight for relief Cermak said: “This is civic fire insurance. ‘Thess communistic organizers are not new i our city. We had them in times of plenty. But now they fd men more ready to listen to | them.” | Mayor Cermak’s words will not) feed the Chicago unemployed. ‘The | February 4th demonstrations in this | city, being pared in the face of a vicious reign of terror, will rally tens of thousands to join in the nationwide demand for immediate relief and for unemployment in- surance. BUTTE, MONT. UNIONS BACK FEB. 4 STRUGGLE FOR JOBLESS RELIEF BUTTE, Mont, Jan. 2}.—A United Front conference for the February 4th demonstration here was well at~ tended. Eleven unions and work- ing-class organizations, besides the delegates from the central hody of the A. F. L. which is the Sliver Bow Trades and Labor Assembly were present. The Conference adopted a resolu- tion unanimously in favor of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. Among those so pledging are the delegates from the Silver Bow Trades and Labor Assembly, A. F. of L. SERIES OF FEB. 4 MEETS AROUND ST. LOUIS FOR ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 25.~A series of demonstrations in many cities are being prepared for February 4th on National Unemployment Insurance Day. Demonstrations will be held in Collinsville, Atlantic City, East St. Louis, Belleville and a City Hunger Mareh in St. Louis, Mo. In St. Louis almost daily ,in the press there are notices of one worker or anoetehr starved to death. Only today there was a notice that a three-month-old baby was found half starved. The parents not being able to find employment, the various charity institutions not giving them any relief. ‘Thousands of farmers around here are beginning to or- ganize because they realize that they can better their conditions only by organizing together with the em- FIGHT ON HUNGER ployed and unemployed workers and struggle for the immediate demands and unemployment insurance. Prior to the demonsrations and the City Hunger March in St. Louis, parades will be held in St. Louis. Special meetings in the county will be organized to get the farmers into the Unemployed Council. Leaflets, stickers posters and other advertis- ing material is being prepared. The march in St. Louis will begin in two different place sand march to the City Hall. ‘We are making all preparations to have successful demonstrations. We expect to organize a few councils as @ result of these activities. The Un- employed Council branches here are determined to break through the terror in E. St. Louis and also build @ movement there. CALL FEB. 4 DEMONSTRATION IN BOSTON TO HIT BOSTON, Mass.," Jan.’ 25.—A series of special leaflets dealing with the hunger program of Mayor Curley of Boston and rallying the unemployed for the Feb. 4 National Unemploy- ment Insurance Day demonstration, scheduled in this city, hes been is- sued by the Unemployéd Council. One leaflet, exposing the role of Mayer Curley and the — socialist party, states: “T am not so much interested in a solution of the present depression because I realive it is nearing its “end!” ‘Thus spoke Mayor Curley in DULUTH BOARD OF EDUC- ATION ATTACKS L. §. U. DULUTH, Minn.—The rapid growth of the Labor Sports Union has caused the bosses here no little worry. Al- ready they are taking steps to break it up. ‘This week the Board of Edycation refused to give the club uge of Wash~ ington Junior High School gym in spite of the fact that money was paid for it. The conditions laid down to the Labor Sports Union by the Board are clearly designed to bregk and prevent the growth of the L. 8.U. ‘The team is forbidden to play any team from outside of Duluth, The most important restriction, however, is the one forbidding anybody from witnessing the games unless they are members of the clubs. This is very significant because these games used to dyaw many spectators from which members were recruited for the Labor Sports Union. A reply to this attack is getting under way, Hundreds of young work~ evs are being mobilized throughout the city to fight for free gyms. This fight is being ilnked up directly with the Feb. 4th preparations. BRANTWOOD L. 8. U. NOT SLEEP BRANTWOOD, Wis.--The Brant- wood section of the Labor Sports Union has been carrying on wide- spread activity for the past few HUNGER PROGRAM October, 1930. In the past year he proved his first point—“a lack of in- terest” in the solving of the prob- lem of the unemployed. BUT THE CRISIS HAS NOT ONLY FAILED TO “NEAR ITS END.” IT HAS GROWN WORSE. Now the socialist party (which says it stands for labor, but in re- ality represents the Small capital- ists) invites Mayor Curley te speak on their platform. How come that CURLEY, THE OPPONENT OF UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE, is Invited to speak on the socialist party platform WHICH MAKES A PRETENSE of being for 2 “part pay” system of unemployment insur- ance. It is because they are birds of the same capitalist class feather. They naturally stick together! . What Curley and the City Do for the Unemployed. ' “Wor the past two years Curley has made the following contributions on the unemployed problem: (1) Talk. talk and more talk with college pro- fessors, bankers and socialist leaders. (2) Telling the unemployed and part- time workers (getting wage-cuts) to spend $20 now..(3) Promising the City Welfare Department $1,250,000 from his private insurance 125 YEARS FROM NOW! (4) Organ- izing the penny-robbing ‘United Re- lef Campaign’ with the banker, ©. F. Weed, at its head to rob the dines and quarters of the workers IN-~ STEAD OF TAXING THE RICH. (6) Forced labor for the smatl frac- tion of the 100,000 jobless in Boston who get relief, instead of paying them union wages for this city work. (6) Proposals to extend the militar- ist municipal air field, Suffolk County court house, instead of clean- ing up the slums with union labor conditions.” | ance at Full Wages be Realized?’) LAFOLLETTE, CHALLENGE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) debate on the very timely topic: ‘Can Federal Unemployment Insur~ Herbert Benjamin was chosen to op- pose LaFollette’s position, LaFollette replied saying he was | “too busy PITTSBURG, ‘Pa. * Jan. Father James R. Cox ran out of a | symposium which had been arranged by the students of Carnegie Tech, | Pitt and other yniversities when he | heard that Herbert Benjamin, one of ne leaders of the National Hunger March to Washington was to speak on the same platform with him. The Students’s League of Western Pennsylvania had arranged this sym- |posium and Homer Bartchy, of the Student League had accepted to speak in the symposium. It was already announced in the press that Cox had accepted and woujd speak. However, as soon announced in the press that Cox had accepted and | would speak. However, as soon as |Cox found out that Herbert Ben- | jamin had also been invited to speak in the symposium he issued a lying statement that he had declined to speak, He stated in the Pittsburgh Press, “I don’t care to speak on the same platform as Benjamin” and when pressed for the reason he answered, “Well, I don’t think they | are American.” Cox is more and more exposing himself as a tool of the bosses. The workers know that before Cox took over his present parish of St. Pat- rick’s the previous rpriest was starv- ing because it is a poor parish. How- ever Cox immediately inaugurated his methods of ballyhoo and ad- vertising, exploiting the unemployed workers in order to draw curious crowds and to fill his pocket-book. He opened up “catacombs” in reg- ular circus side-show style chasging admission to see them. He set up in his church a lot of wax-work figures with a manger, etc, in order to | draw curtosity seekers. He installed a radio and loud speaker. The big- gest stroke, however, was to set up “shanty-town” across the street from from his church, little piano box houses where a couple of hundred unemployed are crowded together Ikie dogs. He then had himself elected “mayor” of Shantytown and gave the place a lot of cheap pub- |Ucity. The land on which Shanty+ j bw is built was donated to him by the Pennsylvania Railroad. Crowds of people come to Shantytown to look it over and to go to Father Cox church and see his catacombs. Father Cox looks with growing apprehension on the February 4th demonstration Pittsburgh which takes place both on the Hill and on the South Side. At the February 4th demonstration on the Hill Herbert Benjamin will speak and also John Buksa, the only Communist couneil- man in the United States, will be one of the speakers. On this dey the thousands of unemployed workers will demand the immediate passage of the workers unemployment in- {surance bill by the Federal govern- ment which was presented to Con- gress by the National Hunger March to Washington and will present the concrete demands fer the unem-~ Ployed workers of the city of Pitts- Lurgh and of Western Pennsylvania which Father Cox opposes. 2. PRICES DECLINE BUT SO DO WAGES. According to the department of la- bor, the cost of living has declined as much as 9 and 3 tenths percent dur- ing the month of December. But workers wages have been cut ten to twenty-five percent, as in the Anar conda Copper Company, United States Steel, Eagle Pencil and all other in- lustries and establishments. ARTHUR, Tenn., Jan. 21 (By Mail). When 9 gun thugs were placed at the mine here, 43 miners refused to work under guard. ORDER MILITIA TO BE READY 10 SHOOT DOWN (CONTINVED FROM PAGE ONE) widahccaten Gants cmcianasy police have already begun the slaugh- ter by shooting down Negro unem- ployed workers, Governor Emmer- son of Illinois is the responsible head of the National Guard, and the Hoover government has already in- dicated its reliance an the army against the unemployed. The Na- tional Hunger March was met by 4 huge armed force, and marine re~ serves, Only the mass mobilization of the workers to continue the fight for unemployment insurance, building up their defense corps, will drive back these threats of wholesale murder for months. Its basketball team has been shoot- ing its baskets with a record of five games won and one lost. The chal- lenge issued by it to other teams have not been answered with the exception of the Atlas A, ©, and the Ironwood A. C. Games have been arranged with them for January 28, ‘The basketball activity of the Brantwood L, S. U. follows after a very successful baseball season, Pep A. C. played 13 games of which Alt these teams were amateur teams only two the workers who struggle for reliet and against starvation, “This winter, at its many confer- ences,” reveals the National Guard handbook,” the staff has been con- sidering and studying ‘Plans for the suppression of radical disorders.’” Befre telling of the details of the organization of all the capitalist forces against the workers, the militia instructions go into details about wholesale slaughter of jobless and The} striking workers. “Never fire over the heads of rioters,” is the order, “If It be not practicable to send a part of the were affillated with the Labor Sports| command to attack in the rear, ‘and Ironwood. 1 bre otleally the same results may be STARVING MASSES obtained by dispatehing sharp shooters to the roofs of upper. stories of houses, from which they can pick off rioters in the rear of the mob,” Stirring up the fascist ambitions of the officers, the pamphlet says: “An ambitious officer may by decisive action acquire fame.” _ “Officers and men should not fear reprisal in case one or more people are killed . . .Troops should have be mrached through crowded streets in times or places of riot, « » Crowds should not be allowed’ to form.” Then to’ rally the whole scum ot the fascist ranks, the Natignal Guard instructions go on to point out who are the allies of the bosses against the hungry unemployed snd against striking workers, The murder ins structions state: “The American Legion, In times of disorder or diaster the various posts of the American Legion can render valuable assistance to com manders of troops.” (p, 28) “Chambers of “Commerce are of great value to. local commanders. Practically every town has one.” (p, 28) “Yi. The proper performance of COX EVADE | ON BUIL’ ‘The first meeting of our Netiona} Committee, whch teok place on Jan. 10 in Pittsburgh, considered serjously and in @ practical manner the problems of rallying the Negro workers to the Steel Workers In dustrial Union and of laying con- crete plans for drawing in thousands of Negroes into our ranks op the basis of throwing the full might of our orgenization into the struggle for the demands and against the opr pressive conditions under which the Negro steel workers 4nd their familles suffer. This is one of the most serious tasks facing the S. W. IU. at this time. Unless the pas- sivity and underestimation of the im- portance of work among Negroes is overcome in our ranks, we will suf- LENIN ON STRIKES AND DEMONSTRATIONS In 1913, Lenin spoke of the im- Portance of the strike movement for revolutionizing the whole of the working-class, as follows: “The revolutionary proletariat In 1906 found a different’ way to the people” a different method of drawing masses into the move- UNITY IN THE STEEL STATEMENT OF THE NATIONAL BURO FOR BUILDIN! THE STEEL WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION DUSTRY the {nterests of “the Negro steel workers; from the smallest depart- Mental demends in the mills to the fight against lynching and all forms of social discrimination. * Fight Against Jim-Crowism The §. W. I. U. must become the steunch defender of the rights of t Negroes in the mill and 1 to’ Our leaflets, speeches, group mass meetings pose the miserable working living conditions under w Negroes are forced to slave and Op the basis of joint meetings with the Negro-and white steel work we must formulate concrete and practical demands that will lead to struggle to abolish these conditions. The conditions of the Negro workers in the mills must not be separated from their sogial conditions in the towns. These two factors cannot be separated. All efforts of the bosses at social discrimination, segregated housing, discrimination in relief, Jim- Crow restaurants, amusement places, hospitals, evictions, threats of beating and lynching, etc., must be met by the 8. W. I. U. by demon- strations to the extent of physical protection for the Negro steel workers and their families, Similarly, all and and he ment, “This method was the revolu- tionary strike, stubborn, passing from place to place, from one end of the country to the other, re- peated strikes, strikes which roused the backward workers to a new life of struggle for economic freedom, strikes which branded and cas- tigated every prominent act of violence and arbitrariness, every crime of Czarism, demonstration strikes which raised the red flag in the Streets of the capital and carrieq revolutionary speeches and revolutionary slogans to the masses of people, “Such strikes cannot he based artifically, but they’ cannot be stopped when they begin to em- brace hundreds and hundreds of thousands,” (Lenin, Jan, 25, 1913, “The Development of Revelution- ary Strikes And Street Demon- strations,” Vol. XII). fer @ severe defeat in our work of building 2 powerful jon . and Struggle in the industry. ~ Negro and White, Unity ‘The importance of the Negro workers in the steel industry cannot be overestimated, neither in an eco- nomic nor political sense. Over 100,000 Negroes are working or unemployed in the industry. They constitute the backbone of heavy manus! Jabor in the mills, both unskilled and semi- skilled and therefore are the most oppressed, lowest paid, most diseon- tented and consequently, the source of unlimited revolutionary strength for building our union, once this source is seriously approached and utilized. This great army of Negro workers, along with the unskilled and semi-skilled white workers in the industry, must become the foun- dation of the Steel Workers Indus- trial Union. * The mistaken theory among our membership that the Negro workers are to be won in a general manner without giving heed to their special conditions, demands and grievances is wrong and dangerous. This theory which denies the special position of the Negroes in the industry and therefore, special demands for struggle in the interest of Negro steel workers leads to a fertile breeding ground for chauvinistic tendencies that choke the growth of the union. Only by taking a firm uncompromis- ing stand for full social, economic and political equality for the Negroes, and applying this slogan by putting forth and drawing the white and Negro workers into the struggle for the winning of these demands in the mills and everyday life for the Negro workers, will we lay the basis for drawing in thousands of Negroes into |the 8S. W. I U. Our union must forms of discrimjnation in the mills (segregation, denial of the better- paid categories of jobs, forced unpaid- for overtime, discrimination in hiring, ete.,) must be stubbornly fought. ‘We must take the following steps immediately: 1, An ideological campaign in every department, group, mill branch and general local. 2. Immedate assignment of smal! committees in each mill for special Negro work, 3. Issuance of special Negro leaf- lets to employed and Jobless Ne- groes, 4, Immedate organization of spe- celal organizing crews to canvass Negro steel neighberhoods to recrutt Negro steel workers for the 8. W. Lu. 5.. Dmmediate organization cf Meetings especially in the Negro neighberhoods to discuss thetr so- cial conditions and to » ate demands, White workers and com- Mittees of our own members must Participate 6. Immediate election of one com- rade in ezeh department whe 1 te be held responsible for Negro work in that ‘epartment, onic for this work. 7. Every executive committee (mill branch, city and district) is to elect at once one comrade or 2 small committee te be responsible for this work. 8. Immediate drawing in of Negro Steel worker’ to leading commit- tees and responsible posts. 9 Each district, mill branch and department group to set a definite quota for recruiting Negro stee! workers and to set time for the accomplishment of this task. 10. Immediate steps must be taken to organize Unemployed Branches of the 8. W. ¥. U. in the segregated Negro stecl neighborhoods and 4s- signment of white steel workers to these branches. 11. Struggle ruthlessly against afl chauvinist tendencies among the workers, ‘The most outstanding demands for the Negro steel workers are as fol~ lows: 1. No discrimination in categories of work. (The right and practice of Negroes-to work on any ich in any department). 2 Pay for all overtime. 3. Equal pay for eaval work. 4. No discrimination in hiring. 5. Against segregation im the stes! towns, 6. Better and equal housing for Negro and white workers, 1, Against all Jim-Crow laws and Practices in the steel towns (these laws and practices are transferrea from the towns into the mills for jenter into the fight on all fronts in which are tests of the officer's ability. An ambitious officer may, by recisive action and proper distribution of troops, acauire fame.” (p. 81) “32. The fact that there are in society so many professional agita- tors, 50 many Communists, thieves, cut-throats, vagabonds and ruffians, who, with the instinct of the vulture, will seek the field of prey, on the one hand, and on the other with the in- stinct of the rat, desert the sinking torious for a single day.” (p, 54) “36, Mobs, as a rule, are made up of cowards, no tnecessarily physica! cowards, but moral cowards—~more! cowards because of their consciousy ness of being in the wrong, of being the rear, which, is therefore, the weakest, th emost vulnerable moment 4 break is started, the rest will fol- Jow like ‘The logica} ATTACK mobs is, there- tically the same result tained by dispatching, if practicable, Sharpshooters to the roots or upper stories of houses, from which they can pick off rioters in the rear of the mob, ‘The picking off of a few riot duty requires the adoption of j ortiot. . o)which ..?,.2 Mmm? m.. and adherence to generaj plans, ten " ae tioters there will generally cause others to flee, and they turn will be the purpose of maintaining in- equality and division on the job to make impossible 2 joint struggle of Negro and white workers for better conditions). 8, No discrimination in the dis- tribution of relief to part-time and Jobless Negroes. 9. Demand full econome, political and social] equality for all Negro work and their families, linking this demand up with the demand for the right of self-determination of the Negro masses in the Black Boit of the south where they form # majority. These demands, which are basic, must be transferred from the prop- aganda stage to the point of actual struggle for winning these demands. In the field of unemployed werk (joint struggle of Negro and white workers) the biggest strides forward can be made, At the same time, the organization of active grievances committees (Negro and white work~ ers) and committees of action inside the mill, fighting for the demands of both the white and Negro workers, will solidify the struggle, We must get away from the prac- tices of carryng the fight no further than the leaflet stages. Only con- crete acton, the joint struggle of white and Negro steel workers will , build and root the 8. W. I, U, in the unshakable foundation of the most militant sections of the steel in- dustry—the semi-skille’ and un- Joined by the rest of the mob.” (p. 64) ‘aluilled Negro and white workers, ust constantly ex- | comrade is to draw on our members | Workers of Tampa | Rally to Defense | of Framed-Up 15) {CONTINUED FROM PACE ONED Committee of 30 workers was elected, representing 12 mass or~ ganizations. House to house c lections for defense funds conducted. Last week (we the 17th) $82 was collected; this | | ng spirit of the work- reased collection of $175. A play for the defense was given at the Labor Temple and 700 work- ers crowded the hall where two months back the police made their outrageous attack. Readers, for whose retention in the factories the cigar makers struck, gave reports of the trial every night, attendance increased for this all the time, reaching a nightly audience of 300. A labor jury attended the trial every day and brought back their reports and opinions. Mass protest meetings are in preparation. | The worker: brazen are incensed at the m of the innocent y saw their fifteen fel-| 101 railroaded through to| jail on no other ground |and for supporting the Communist Party, the party of tt Although Skinner, th at- | torney, attacked each worker on his beliefs, questioned them on Commu- nism, on their belief in God, etc.,| and brought in as evidence their | solidarity with the Negro workers, h hypocritically blathered at the close of the case “Regardless of what the bolshevist thinks about it, I am not trying to persecuate these people.” ‘The attorney defending the work- ers demanded that the workers be| tried on the charges and not for their beliefs. But the hand picked labor-hating jurymen, stirred up by Skinner, brought in the now in- famous verdict of guilty, carrying sentences of 21 years. T. Crawford, one of the workers arrested with the fifteen others for celebrating the Anniversary of the) | Russian Revolution on November | |7th, was released because the case | against him was so flimsy that the district attorney was forced to free him. But he has been arrested again, charged this time with having liquor and home brew in his home, SOVIET PAPER EXPOSES WAR. AIMS OF JAPAN (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) forces as a threat against the So- ‘ostier and against the Chinese Railway, jointly opetated by nd’ the Soviet Union, have created a situation full of In these circumstances, | points out, the Soviet Union pro- | | posed @ non-aggression pact which, | | judging by Japanese newspapers, the Japanese Gove! ent is not eager to conclude. Japanese Push Brutal Attack on Chinese Masses | Pushing their savage war, against the Chinese masses and their revo- lutionary organi: ns, the Japanese prepared yesterday to bombard the native quarter of the city of Shanghai in Central Chins Nine Japanese warships in the har- bor had their guns stripped for ac- tion. An additional Japanese force of 1,400 marines have been landed in the city, with orders to disband the revolutionray organization s of the Chinese workers, seize their head- quarters and smash the mass boy cott of Jaanese goods. Twenty-two additional warships are held in read- iness at Sasebo, Japan, to be dis- patched to Shangrai or o ther Chi- nese cities where the workers are re- pudiating the Kuomintang traitors and are rallying for the mass revo- lutionary struggle against the for- eign imperialists and their native Jackeys. The Napki ng government has not severed diplomatic relations with Japan, in spite of the Japanese seiz~ | ure of Manchuria and their present armed intervention in Central Chine. A resolution calling for the ermed resistance against the Japanese was rejected yesterday by the Nanking government officials, including Chi- ang Kai Shek and Wank Ching Wei, “left” leader, now in alliance with Chiang. Both of these traitors re- turned to Nanking two days #go to help complete the final selling out of the Chinese masses and the parti- tion of China among the imperialists. Following the rejection of the reso- lution, Eugene Chen, @ notorious agent of the Japanese, made a fake maneuver of resigning from the of- fice of Nanking Foreign Minister. Y, S. Rushing Warships to China British, American and other im- perialist agents i n Shanghai con- fidently predict that the Nanking For $50,000 Figh than being | militant and fighting for their rights, | menace. 4 Izvestie GENERAL STRIK Fage three SPAIN; WORKERS FIGHT GOVT (CONTINUED FEOM PAGE ONE) ing amid the tremendous misery the workers and farmers of t gion caused a large te attack the t into the work- ins and began to people we wounded. Bringing their treacherous policy to a head yesterday, the Syndical ist leaders of Barcelona joined hands with the Socialists in de claring that they would not sup- port the general strike called fer today. Under pressure of the masses of workers and farmcis they had prev ly come out favor of the strike. The fighting mood of the workers, } eders of the nd caused them to steps heading off the mighty upsurge of the revolution ary movement All the chief provinces of have been put under Civil Guards, troo, for because of the mass peasants to the revolut: opments there. ‘This ferment the peasants has been intensified im measurably by the failure of Coalition government even to con- sider the mild land reform acts prom ised by the socialists. In a vain effort to curb the mili taney of the workers nad the Coalition government has a decree disbanding the Jesuit Ca re deve among peasants issued | 1- | Anarchists, 5 scat, of their property. Notice this decree was given for weeks in Jesuits to re- le part of its decree was en- d The decree its the came as & result the masses them- The failure of the Coalition to disband the Jesuits after the overthrow of tatorship led to ac of selves government peasants. Churches, monasteries and religious schools were attacked nad fired the enraged workers and ww the Coalition govern decree as a pretext military die peas: ment any monarchist e Basque province Buenos to have had 100 poli rs on boerd is now w port of Beleelona with ners and a result of the Communist Parts headquarters in 0,000 textile worker: 1 that city being directed which is The c the vief terror Is Cor Party workers and nunist Party of severe condi mn is rapidl; working of fasci vist. policies of the mndicalists and Trotsky- from the a olic Order and commanding the con-ites, SCOTTSBORO PROTESTS POUR IN ON ALA. SUPREME COURT (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) innocent Negro boys to the Alabama Supreme Court and to Governor B M. Miller of Alabama. Already many resolutions and protests have been forwarded. Protests and resolutions jalso have been sent to United States Ambassador to France, Fdge JOHNSTOWN, Jan Mass meeting of Johnstow last Wednesday ni t; adopted resolutions de! ding the mediate and unconditional release the nine innocent Scottsboro boys tucky Negro and white ne strikers jailed by the coal op- erators and their courts Pa workers to fight for the release of the Scottsboro boys and other class war victims and against the hunger Program and lynch terror of bosses. He urged them to support the February 4th demonstrations for unemployment relief and social in- surance. Many workers joined the 1 DI L. government will accede to the de- mands of the Japanese and will wel- come the Japanese armed interven- tion against the revolutionary Chi- hese masses and against the growing threat of the Nanking counter-revo- lutionary government of the rapid growth of Communist influence thru- out China and the advance of the Chinese ed Army in the central Prov- inces. At hte same time, the British and American imperialists are grave- ly concerned over the Japanese ac- tion in Shanghai, which brings them treading on the toes of their imper~ falist rivals for the loot of Chin. This is especially so in the case of the United States, which has huge fin- ancial interests tn Shanghai. The United States is rushing additional warships to China from Manilla. Masses Continne Resistance Defying the armed threat of the Japanese imperialists, the Shanghai workers last night attacked the home of the Japanese minister to Ching setting it on fire. The workers were attacked and driven off the troops of the Nanking government. Chinese merchants in Shanghai have started @ movement in support of the Japanese demands to break up the revolutionary organizations of the Chinese wrokers and crush two boy- cott movement whichwas started by the Chinese bourgeoisie themselves but has since taken on a mass char- acter and is now out of the control of the Chinese bourgeoisie, Huge Japanese forces in Manchuria are continuing s ruthless campaign against the anti-imperialist masses and Red partisan troops, Fighting between the Red partisan and the Japanese invaders is proceeding over a front of 100 miles in Manchuria. sks pledged themselves to build the Johnstown into a mass fight against the I. L. D. in organization to | bosses’ terror Copies of the resolution demanding the release of the Scottsboro boys were forwarded to the Alabama Su- preme Court and to Gov. B, M Miller of Alabama. Cc. EB, Pa.—The local branch of the International Labor Defense yesterday sent a protest telegram to the Alabama Supreme Court de- nouncing the attempt to railroad the innocent Scottsboro boys to the elec- tric ir, and demanding their im~- mediate and unconditional release. * * DETROIT, Jan. 24—Ninety del- egates from mass organizations, trade unions, Unemployed Council, League of Strugle for Negro Rights Interna- tionel Lebor Defense branches ©: several Negro churches raised the de- mand for the immediate relas of the nine Scottsboro boys, and against dis- crimination against the Negro work- ers by the “faker Murphy” here in Detroit, Delegates Expose Murphy A delegate from the Ukrainian Wo- men’s Organization reported that when Murphy came to speak before them, before the election, he told the Ukrainians that he Wked them the best because they “sing so beauti- fully.” A Negro delegate from the Baptist Church stated that Murphy told them at their meeting that he likes the Negroes the best. A Polish woman delegate got up end sald that when Murphy spoke at their meeting, he told them that he likes the Polish |people the best. A Negro worker from the Unemployed Council seid “Looks to me that Murphy likes us all, but when we demand milk for our bables and when we demand unemployment insurance he clubs us all and he the Federal authorities to deport the Polish, Ukfainians and all the foreign born.” ¢ Negro worker further stated that Murphy who is on the executive board of the N. A. A.C. P. sends his Police to shoot down Negro workers, as in the case of Lester Owen, shot by Murphy when he attempted to pick up a few chunks of coal to warm up bis family. This comrade appealed for unity of all workers, white snd Negro, in the struggle against the demagogues of both reces, (gppleuse). After the reports end the discussie: the conference decided to organize four sections of the Scotsboro com~ mittee and as the result of this we already saw the big demonstration of workers lead by the Hamtramck and North Detroit Committee on January 19 before the city hall, forcing the grafting politicians of Hamtramck to send a telegram to the governor and the Supreme Court of Alabams de« manding the release of the Scotte- boro boys. ting Fund! FILL OUT AND SEND WITH DONATION Now! My Answer to the Bosses’ Hunger Program T Contribute $ Name City . 50 BAST 13th STREET sos. State . ey USA NEW YORK CITY and Capitalist War! ~