The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 2, 1932, Page 1

WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central Orga p Entere at New York, Vol. IX, No28 r J, WO ef Section of the Communist International ) orker Party U.S.A. Post Office a the act of March 3, 1879 uW YORK, TUESDAY, _FEBRUARY 2 2 “CITY EDI TION Collect Money, Scrape Up Every Penny to Save “ire 3 Cents IMPERIALIST WAR DRIVES DEEPER INTO CHINA AS: ROBBER POWERS ASSEMBLE HUGE ¥ /AR FORCES { Prepare ft for or Huge heb. 4 4 Rally i in Union Sq, 1.5 1.30 p.m. 2. Demand Jobl ess Insurance! Down with the Imperialist Slaughter of Chinese Masses! Down with the War Menace Against the Soviet Union! is raging against the unarmed Chinese masses. ‘War by the imperialist powers is being plunged deeper into the heart of China! Never since the last world war has so huge a mobilization of imperialist war forces been concentrated as now stand before Shanghai, tearing China to pieces; shooting down the toiling population; prepar- ing new wholesale slaughter. The war front is extending against the Chinese people. In Harbin, Japanese imperialism, whose Manchurian war was sup- ported by all the imperialist powers, is now lunging closer to the Soviet Union, strengthening the war base for an attack on the Union of So- cialist Soviet Republics. From Manchuria to Shanghai was one step in the bandit policy of the imperialist robbers. The slaughter of the Chinese masses in Shang- hai, now spreading to Nanking, threatening Hankow, and marching on to the Chinese Soviet. territories, is a continuation of the murderous policy of Japanese imperialism in Manchuria which is driving to war against the Soviet Union. ‘The imperialist powers, sinking deeper into economic and financial crisis, with the contradictions of the whole capitalist world breaking through ever sharper, plunge to war as a way out of the crisis. The war has begun against the Chinese masses, with the imperialist robbers armed to the teeth to protect their loot, ready to resort to war for the lion’s share of the bleeding body of China. The Chinese masses are putting up a heroic resistance, despite the treachery of the Kuomin- tang, to the onslaught of the imperialist invaders. In the growing contradictions of the imperialist powers lies a great menace of wer against the Soviet Union, the main obstacle to the imper- jiglists in. their. bloody-adventures. United States imperialism, with its massive hypécrisy, is acting for war, amidst a great disptuy of pacifist propaganda. They are preparing to lunge the American verkers, wracked and rent with hunger, starva- tion, waze cuts, into a now imperialist war for the aggrandizement of Wall Street, for the destruction of the Chinese revolution and for the overthrow of hte workers’ republic in the Soviet Union. ‘The pacifist agents of American imperialism are laying the smoke screen for this new, gigantic war. American imperialism which can find nes one cent for the millions of starving unemployed, finds hundreds of millions for the pursuit of its war preparations, for the bloody conquest of China, for war preparations against the Soviet Union. Only the American working class can smash the war actions of Amer- ican imperialism! The American workers must act now! War is being speeded up every day. The drive against the Chinese masses, instigated by the imperialist powers jointly, must be crushed by the toiling masses of all countries. Every day sees an extension of the war. The slaughter of the Chinese masses by the imperialist murderers is going on at a more fur- fous pace each day. Workers! Fight against the imperialist war! the war menace against the Soviet Union! Demand the immediate withdrawal of all the imperialist warships and armies from China! Support the heroic battle of the Chinese masses against alt the imperialist invaders. Workers! Organize anti-war committees everywhere. Protest and agitate in all workers’ organizations and in the shops and in the streets against the imperialist slaughter of the Chinese masses, against the war threats to the Soviet Union. Organize and fight against the imperialist war! Sharpen the fight against hunger and starvation, against wage cuts nd capitalist oppression at home which is part of the war prepara- tions of the imperilist bandits. Build a powerful invincible united front against the bloody imperialist war! All out on February 4th, against hunger and war! Throw your full support to the Chinese revolution! Demand hands off China! Defend with all your power and strength the Soviet Union—the Socialist father- Jand! Demonstrate against F ight Against Hunger to Enlist Many Thousands Thursday in U.S. Cities CHICAGO, Feb. 1.—Over 5,000 unemployed | workers, forced by the bosses’ starvation sys-| tem to live in the disease-infested flophouses | demonstrated Friday on Monroe and Green | Sts. in support of their demands and in prep- aration for the two huge unemployment demonstrations Feb. 4 at Union Park, Randolph and Ogden, at 3.80 p. m. and at 88th St. and Wentworth Ave. Through the Unemployed Com- | mittees in the flop houses, operated by the Joint Emergency | Relief Commission the workers succeeded in winning some de- | mands, such as establishment of Un- | employed Committees, the right to! hold meetings every evening, longer sleeping hours, etc. | This demonstration which was in preparation for February 4th, sup- IN M 0 V E T0 ported the demands of the unemploy- | send delegations with these demands to Mr. Beasley, in chrage of the flop | houses and Mr. Ryerson, president of | | the Joint Emergency Relief Commit- | : tee. The demands included the follow- ing: Three square meals a day, in- stead of two, two feet aisle space be- | twice a week, no discrimination | against members of the Unemployed | Council, thes right to hold meetings in all flop houses, extension of sleep- ing hours till 6:30 a. m., free medical attention to the unemployed and un- employment insurance at the expense of the bosses. Pus h_ Provocation ; Against Workers’ Russia A Mukden dispatch reports that the Soviet Siberian border is the ob- jective of the new movement of Jap- anese troops on Harbin, principle Manchurian city on the Chinese East- {ern Railway, jointly operated by Chi- ed workers of the flop houses and} tween the beds, tobacco to be issued na and the Soviet Union. In line with their campaign of provocation against the Soviet Union, the Japanese a few days ago seized the southern section of the Chinese Eastern Railway for the transporta- tion of their tfoops to Harbin. Per- Despite the mass mobilization of police, in squad cars and patrol wa- | gons, because of the militant spirit | of these workers, no attempt was | made to smash this fighting demon- | stration. The speakers from two dif- ferent platforms, urged the workers to demonstrate on February 4th at (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE? Ky.Miners Plan Marches to Spread Mine Picketing PINEVILLE, Ky., Feb. 1.—A flood which rendered the roads in the strike area impassable, flooded many miners’ homes and lapped at the prison doors of the nine jailed or- ganizers, forcing their removal to the court house, slowed up. | |but did not halt the preparations for the huge mobilization Bronx Workers Battle Cops As Rent NEW YORK.—“I want to see blood before I give in”, said the socialist landlord, Osinoff, when asked whether he would concede to the demands of the 42 families who are carrying on ) militant struggle for © reduction pf rent at 665 Allerton Ave., Bronx. The socialist landlord then pro- ceeded to evict three families of strikers. Over 1000 workers mobilized to stop the eviction. Tammany de- termined that the eviction should take place, mobilized over a hundred . horse and foot police and about twice as many plain clothes men and gang- sters. Tammany knew that the evic- tion could only bé carried out by the utmost use of violence. The police threw out a cordon three blocks in length, through which no workers were allowed to pass. ‘When the van arrived to carry away the workers’ furniture, the workers asked the men hired to do the dirty work for the landlords to come over on the side of the strikers. One Negro worker, upon hearing the story of the strike wept bitterly and re- fused to help remove the furniture. He said he himself had an eviction notice, and he'l rather starve than evict another’ worker, The police then proceeded to at- tack the workers who had assembled to stop the eviction, in a most vicious manner, slugging right and left, tear- fig the clothes off of both men and Strike Spreads women. Masses of workers frora the nearby houses, upon hearing «f the police attack, rushed to the scene and showed their solidarity with the strikers by helping defend themselves against the police attack. Only by the use of utmost violence were the police able to accomplish the evic- tion. In spite of the eviction of the three families the strikers have pledged to carry on the struggle( rallying more workers to mass picket the house and force the landlord to concede to the demands of the strike committee. Meanwhile the workers in the neigh- boring houses are also on strike. The tenants at 653 Ritton Street are on strike. The tenants at 2810 Olin- ville Ave., are out already and other houses are ready to follow. The houses at 2531 and 2541 Olin- ville Ave., settled on $3 off for 2 and 3-room apartments and recognition of the house committee. Sell Hunger March Magazines | on Feb. 4. The National Hunger March in Pictures will be sold at all Feb. 4 demonstrations, Organizations should place their orders now by wire to National Committee of UnemployeéJin the Girard Manor Hall on Councils, 16 W. 2ist St, New York Uh cl last of the miners today to smash® the federal injunction against the strikers in Straight Creek section. The strikers will march from Mathell, Harlan County, twenty-two miles distant, from Brush Creek, Knox County, 15 miles distant, and from Four Miles, ten miles distant, to help the Straight Creek, Bell County miners thrown a mass picket line around the Glendon mines, which were given a federa) injunc- tion against the miners at the re- quest of Mr. Calvert, Henry Ford’s lawyer in Kentucky, Freezing weather followed the | flood nad more than one hundred | evictions in the last few days will | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THRER) Phila. Workers PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1.— The boss lynch courts of Ala- bama will soon give their de- cision on the appeal by the In- ternational Labor Defense for @ new trial for the eight innocent Negro boys and sentenced to burn in the electric chair. They are trying to send these in- nocent boys to the electric chair in order to keep up the mob rule and lynch terror against the Negro peo- ple and in this way maintain their system of hunger and starvation. A week ago the boss courts in Mar- yland sentenced Orphan Jones to the gallows on a framed-up charge | of murder. | ‘These atiacks can be | through the organization and pro- tests of the white and Negro workers. International Labor Defense has ar- ranged a protest meeting to be held lay February 5th at 8:00 p. m, at which Mrs. Montgomery, the mother of 17 Protest Meeting February 5| stopped | The Philadelphia district of the | in Scotisboro year old Olin Montgomery, and one of the Scottsboro boys, will speak and give the vivid story of the op- pression of the Negro toilers of the South. All workers’ are urged to at- tend this meeting. Support the struggles of the Negro masses! Build the fighting alliance of white and Negro workers! Down with the lynch terror! Demand the unconditional release of the Scottsboro boys! Demand the unconditional release of Orphan Jones! Join in united protest with all workers on Sythe coy BUFF. .N. Y, Feb. 1—A pro- test mass meeting against the frame- | up of the 9 Scottsboro boys was held last night under the auspices of the | League of Struggle for Negro Rights at the Friendship Baptist Church, Hickory and Clinton Sts. Many Negro and white workers at- tended. A resolution demanding the | immediate, unconditional release of | the Scottsbore boys was unanimously adopted, ‘ ates, de Districts’ itinetivi ty" Increases “Daily” Crisis; Rush Funds! We are coming out by buy- ing paper from day to day. This is a dangerous proceed- ure. Donations must come in faster to stop suspension. We cannot foretell what day we will not have enough money for paper for the next edition of the Daily Worker. Only $1,150 in so far. The amounts sent in by the dis- tricts were: Boston, $7; New York, $982; Philadelphia, $12.50; Pittsburgh, $1.50. Cleveland, $28.44; Detroit, $11.50; Chicago, $55.10; Minneapolis, $2. Kansas, North and South Dakota, NOTH- ING YET. Connecticut, $5; North and South Carolina, $3; South, $20; Montana, nothing; Colorado, $14. | pee ei Tailors to Organize March to Feb. 4 Jobless Demonstration the day of ere for unemployment NEW YORK.—Members Se | Amalgamated Clothing Workers’| insurance. Union, under the leadership of the; The Rank and File Committee is Rank and File Committee, are plan- | calling upon all the tailors and cut- ning to march through the 5th Ave.| ters to rally at the Rank and File men’s clothing market on Thursday,| Center, 126 University Place, at 11 Feb. 4th, and then march to join the | o'clock in the morning where a mass | big Uxion Square demonstration at| meeting will be held and from where 1:30 p. m. to demand unemployment | the march will start. Every one is insurance, | urged to come on time. The Amlagamated Workers will on | Williamsburg. Parade. this day, expose Hillman’s treacheries | against the workers. The thousands | onstration was held on Scholes St. of tailors and cutters now out of| © work suffering will participate in this | (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Com. Amter Calls for Quick Support to “Daily” Drive The situation in the Daily Worker is very critical and it is absolutely aecessary that every Party member come to its support without delay. If funds are not forthcoming, there is grave danger that the Daily Worker may not appear. Some Party units at their last meeting took up a collection for the Daily Worker, but most of the units failed to do cc. We know that the Party members are making collections in the mass organizations, etc. But this does not suffice in the present situation. Now more then ever the Daily Worker is needed. With war on in China against the Chinese masses led by the Soviets and with the gravest danger of war against the Soviet Union, the need of the Daily Worker grows grealer every day. Therefore, every Party member, whether he has contributed or not, must make a sacrifice and donate the maximum amount at the meet- ing tonight. The work must not end there, but collections must im- mediately be made in the shops, unions and fraternal organizations to take Daily Worker out of dange: es ee On Saturday, January 30th, a dem- | 10 EXTEND S' AUGHTER OF CHINESE MASSES; THREAT ON USSR GROWS IN HARBIN ‘, Consul-General Cunningham Calls War ips to Suppress Communists, Snipers, irade Unions and Workers Resistance In Shang Japanese Bombard Nanking, Push War Up | Yangize River Towards Chinese Soviet | A Republic U.S x | as Japanese | g planes and machine guns on densely popu- | Hunt down and murder Chinese | Use Settlezsent as base for | mill | United Sietes, England, France join Japan in rushin warships against Chinese i Attack aimed especially at Chinese Red Army and the Chinese Soviet Republic. Japanese warships open bombardment of Nanking aftre giving Chiang | Kai-shek time to leave city for new capital of Nanking ghost gov- ernment. Nanking troops in city declare martial law against macses. | Japenese nations putting up barricades in Yangtze Valley towns. United | States removing nationals in preparation for joint attack by world imverialists en Chinese Revolution. Imperialists in diplomatic clash over division of spoils as looting of China proceeds. sends warship against Swatow workers. . Battle Fleet leaves San Diego with year’s supplies aboard. * ’ . U U. Ruthlessly pushing their campaign of plan- ned frightfulness against the Chinese masses the Japanese imperialists yesterday continued raining death upon the densely populated na- tive sections of the large South China city of | Shanghai, gateway to the rich Yangtze Valley. |In addition to bombing planes and machine | guns, the Japanese brought field guns into ac- |tion against the Chinese masses, murdering | thousands of workers in addition to the more than 10,000 admittedly slaughtered in Shanghai up to Sunday | last. | Not only are the other imperialist powers permitting the Japanese to use the so-called neutral area of the International | Settlement as a base for armed attack against the Chinese (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Soviet Union Records Unprecedented Gains As Capitalism Breaks Down Production Rises Against Background of Decline In Capitalist Industry MOSCOW.—The 17th Conference of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union is holding the closest attention of the broad masses of workers and farmers in the U.S.S.R. It is arousing a new wave of enthusiasm for the completion of the Five- | Year Plan in four years and for the execution of the second |Five-Year Plan of Socialist by 864. delegates with a ull Construction. | 5 ‘ The Cnoference is attended | Yt and 459 in consultative | capacity. | In reporting the level of industrial | development reached during 1931 and | the tasks fasing the Communist Party and the working masses in 1932, Ord- jonikidze, one of the leaders of the Soviet Communist Party, said in part: “A steady powerful growth in our socialist industry is taking place on the backjground of a colossal decline in production throughout the capital- ist world. We hav. attained a growth for the year of 21 per cent but quite legitimately consider it nisufficient. But never, even in its best days, did | a single capitalist country know such a per centage of growth in produc- | tion for a single year, Even America never had an annual growth exceed- ing 7 per cent. At present industry in all capitalist countries is going downhill even more rapidly than it went up. “Taking the level of 1925 as 100, ma ‘(CORTINUED @5 BAGH THREAD