The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 4, 1932, Page 3

. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1932 SaaS a: Page Taree National Unemployment Insurance Day! hundreds of thousands of workers who are demonstrating to- day for Unemployment Insurance are voicing the protest of millions of workers who are rapidly realizing that the ruling class and its government have doomed them to die by slow starvation. ‘The demonstrations today are however, not merely demonstrations of protest. They not only express burning resentment, bitter hatred and the desperation which grows out of the misery and want which is rampant among the great masses of workers. Such protest was expressed also by the demonstrations of March 6, 1930. Even those workers who for the moment follow the despicable demagogue, “Father” Cox are attempting to express their resentment and protest. Today, the thousands of workers who respond to the call of the Un- “employed Councils and the National Hunger March, demonstrate not only to denounce the hunger program of the bosses and government. The demonstrations today are mobilizations of masses who are united by a common program as well as by a common condition. ‘i ‘The demand behind which these hundreds of thousands are united is the demand for UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE EQUAL TO FULL WAGES AT THE EXPENSE OF THE BOSSES AND GOVERNMENT. “The demonstrations today are significant also because they are the united actions of great masses who have learned that their demands can be won by only one means—united mass struggle. In the period since March 6, 1930, the unemployed workers and the working class as a whole have learned the true value of promises made by the open and disguised agents of the bosses. When Hoover sought to offset the effect of the March 6 demonstra- tlors, by promising that prosperity would return in sixty days, the index figures for production stood at 97. Today, after a continued, stead, sharp fiecline, the figures, as published in the New York Times, stand at 64, It is now obvious to all that mass unemployment isa permanent feature of capitalism. As long as capitalism lasts more and more workers will be forced into the ranks of a permanent and ever-growing army of unem~- ployed. Therefore, charity “relief,” in whatever form, cannot meet the situation, and Federal Unemployment Insurance is a basic necessity to safeguard the very existence of millions of workers, as well as the living standards of the entire working class. ‘When Hoover, seeking “means to avert dole” (N.Y. Times), promised that no worker would go hungry this winter, he deliberately lied, and millions of workers now know he lied. Every city in the United States has its quota of totally destitute, making up in its aggregate an army of millions who are literally dying of slow starvation, exposure and resulting diseases. “Liberals,” “progressives,” “socialists” and “humanitarians” who called upon workers to abandon struggle under revolutionary leadership and support “sane” policies and programs of relief, now likewise stand ex- posed before greater masses. a ‘The miserable charity slop; the grocery checks reluctantly given in return for forced labor; the mass evictions; the separation of families; these are the reward of the patience and tolerance which thse well-fed, slimy agents of the murderous ruling class advocate. Some of these demagogues (Wagner, La Follette, Norman Thomas, Muste, etc.) also speak of unemployment insurance. The bill recently passed in Wisconsin and signed by Governor La Follette is a fair sample of the kind of insurance these fakers speak of. (They condemn all strug- gles for real insurance.) The Wisconsin Law may make unemployment insurance available one year from now. The amount provided for is $10 for a period of ten weeks. Workers now unemplyed, many of whom can never hope to get a job again, are entirely excluded from the provisions of this bill. This bill and all simila;s measures sponsored by these fakers, are mockeries of un- employment insurance and a mockery of the misery of the unemployed. ‘The workers have also been strengthened by the lessons and experi- ence of the past two years of struggle. In hundreds of battles, they have defended their right to live. Only the mass struggles conducted under revolutionary leadership saved thousands of working-class families from tyiction. Only because of the stubborn street battles and demonstrations, carried through in the face of brutal police terror, were the various gov- ernment bodies compelled to provide even such relief as is now available. Today, when the capitalist class and its government persists tn the effort to smuggle or force through its policy of hunger as the solution of the ever deeper crisis in which it finds itself, the workers have not only clearer understanding of the effectiveness of struggle, but also of its greater need. Decaying capitalism threatens the physical extermination of millions - » of workers: Capitalism offers millions of toilers the choice of death from slow starvation—or—death on its imperialist battlefields. ‘ Workers! Let the mighty demand which you make today, for the right to live, echo and re-echo in thousands of daily struggles that must be conducted with greater intensity and militancy, with the added force and power developed through the preceding struggles of which today's demonstration is a high point. On with the fight for Unemployment Insurance, equal to full wages, at the expense of bosses and government! Demand that funds used in the war against the Chinese masses and in preparation for war against the Soviet Union be used for the Federal Unemployment Insurance Fund. Forward in the struggle against hunger, terror and war! Build the Unemployed Councils for the daily struggles! Build the revolutionary unions for the fight against wage-cuts and lower living standards! Join and build the Revolutionary Party of the Working Class, the Communist Party of the United States of America! Try to Remove Danger of Clash Over Loot by ‘Peace’ Proposals The joint proposals for “peace” made on Tuesday by the United States, Great Britain, France and Italy were aimed toward lessening the danger of an inter-imperialist clash in Shanghai. The proposals were not proposals for peace but to lessen this danger and to check the Japanese whom the other imperialists consider to have gone too: far and to be now threatening to seize all of China, including the de- sired loot of the other imperialists, At the same time, they are aimed at holding the Japanese imperialists to their role as the spearhead in the at- tack against the Soviet Union. The proposals were also a move to detract from what is happening around Harbin, North Manchuria, where the Japanese are carrying out the announced intention to proceed towards the Siberian frontier of the Soviet Union. ‘The Japanese are reported to have rejected two of the five proposals. ‘They refused to entertain the propo- sition that they do not further in- crease their-armed forces in China. ‘This proposal is plainly aimed at keeping their forces in China below the forces the other powers are now rushing there. This the Japanese re~ jected, giving as their reason the ly- ing argument that Chiang Kai-shek was sending reinforcements to Shang- hai. This the other robber imper- that Chiang a few days ago attemp- ted to disarm the troops already in Shanghai, after these troops had de- fied his orders and had joined the Chinese masses in resisting the Jap- anese invasion. Accept Proposal to Disarm Chinese Defenders. ‘The other proposal rejected by the Japanese was turned dov7n on the that it would re-open the question of the Manchurian seizure, whieh the Japanese consider settled, but which the other imperialists hav- ing previously endorsed it are now attempting to re-open as a. basis for with the pipet over the looting of the rest of China. ‘The proposal for the establishment of a neutral zone in war-torn Shang- Jin know to be a lie, being aware ee, the danger of a clash between the imperialist forces which threatened in the course of the maniacal fury of the Japanese planned campaign of frightfulness against the Shanghai Chinese workers, and to disarm the resistance of (Chinese troops and workers against the Japanese, while holding the Japanese to their basic task of attacking the Chinese revolu- tion. This proposal was accepted both by the Japanese and the Kuo- mintang officials in Shanghai. U. 8. British, Others, Rush More . Warships. In the meaptime, the United States, Great tain, France and Italy continue to rush additional warships and troops to China to car- ry out the joint attack on the Chin- ese masses and to restrain the Jap- anese from encroaching on their “interests” in China. The American imperialist press boasts that the armed forces of United States, Brit- ish, French and Italian imperialism in China, now exceed the Japanese forces, A London dispatch reports that the British China Squadron of 45 war- ships is speeding to Hongkong. Sev- era] British warships have already arrived at Shanghai others are on the way, There are 12 British gun- boats further up the Yangtze River as part of the imperialist forces which are making war on the Chinese Red Army, U. S. Navy Says Battle Fleet Available The U. S. Asiatic squadron reached Shanghai yesterday, reinforcing other U. 8S. naval forces already there. U. 8. gunboats, under the command of Rear Admiral Yancy Williams are also engaged up the Yangtze River in attacks on the Chinese Red Army. A Washington dispatch yesterday Demand War Funds Go to Feed Starving, Jobless Millions (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) and other places linked up together. The workers employed and unem- ployed, Negro and white wil Ibe mo- bilized around local issues. Tn New Kensington the fight of the masses under the leadership of the Unemployed Councils forced the Burgess to grant a permit for the demonstration of February 4th. He hopes this way to tone down the fighting spirit of the masses. But February 4th will be more than a day of demonstration. The Johnstown pressure of the workers led by the Unemployed Council secured the Point Stadi um for the 4th. In Coverdale the mine issue will be brought to the front together with the fight for immediate relief and the Unemployment Insurance Bill. Meetings Are Scheduled for Feb. 4th as Follows: Pittsburgh, Fullerton and Webster, | at 2 p.m, East Pittsburgh, Westinghouse Gate, Turtle Creek, 11:30 a. m McKeesport, B. & O. Depot, 2 p. m. Ambridge, Merchant St., between 6 and 7 at 7 p. m. Johnstown, Paint Stadium, 1:30 p.m. Brownsville,. Coverdale, Granish Hall, at 3 p. m. Verona. Library. . * . ae KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Feb. Four hundred unemployed workers crowded into an indoor mass meeting today and enthusiatically participated in the formation of Knoxville’s first Unemployed Council. Preparations are being made for a Feb. 4 demon- stration. Scores of Negro worekrs were pre- sent. A provisional council of 3 was elected, including several Ne- groes, to form unemployment com- mittees in working-class neighbor- hoods throughtout the city. ‘The owner of the hall refused to open the doors when he saw crowds of workers waiting outside, but the militancy of the workers forced his retreat. Eight to ten thousand Knoxville unemployed workers are starving. A few hundred old residents have given one day’s work weekly at city jobs and are paid $2. They are then forced to give 30 cents of this to charity. Forced labor for workers who do city work and in addition they must supply funds for those who cannot get city jobs. The turnout of 400 is remarkable. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 3.—Fol- lowing yesterday’s unemployed mass meeting, a committee of 25 was elec- ted to take charge of the campaign for immediate relief and unemploy- ment. insurance and for further or- ganization of the unemployed. All local papers today publish in parallel columns the official statement and demands gf the mass meeting, and a statement of City Manager Bass. Bass defends the program of one day per week work for one member of an unemployed family, and reveals the starvation character of the so- called relief, admitting that the total received per family amounts to $1.70 per week. The result of yesterday’s mass meeting is stated in the headline of the Knoxville “Times” as fol- wee lows: “Lines drawn in vigorous fight over city’s unemployment plan.” One hundred and 26 workers regis- tered with the committee elected by the unemployed mass meeting. The committee mts tonight to work out furthr plans of extending its organi- zation. Four Negro workers are on the committee, The National Hunger March Pic- torial is now being sold here, and plans are being made for a wide li- terature distribution and a series of meetings at railway shops and tex- tile mills. Open air meetings will be held February 4. manouvers, is equipped to keep on going to Shanghai should events there require its presence, Secretary of Navy Adams said today.” Both the U. S. Asiatic Squadrond and the U. S. battle fleet carry a year’s supplies and are equipped for “any eventuality.” Socialists Cover Up Crimes of Own Imperialists In the British parliament, the Labor Opposition leader George Lans- bury also raised “the yellow peril” in @ typical social-democratic attempt to cover up the crime of his own imperialism. He referred to the con- duct of Japan in Shanghai as “a piece of international piracy,” _ but said not a word against the par- ticipation of the British imperialists in this nternatonal piracy and loot- ing of China. The socialist MacDonald and other leaders of the fascist British “na~ tional” government reproved Lans- bury for injecting the Shanghai sit~ uation into the debate in parliament. MacDonald, sending ‘warships and troops to shoot down the Chinese masses had already declared that he refused to place blame for the frightful murder of Chinese workers in Shanghai. . In the United Stataes, the So- cialist Party leader Norman Thomas, duplicated Lansbury’s hypocrisy. With the United States imperialists openly participating in the murder- ing and looting of the Chinese masses, Thomas calls upon these bandits to stop the Japanese robbers. He had not word of protest against the crime of United States im- perialism, while scoring the crime of other imperialists. ANY $1.50 OR $1 INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS BOOK WITH ONE TO THE CONGRESS OF THE unemployment. 2. ployed worker, adult and raised by the government ADMISSION BY DEMAND FOR UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AT FULL WAGES Workers Unemployment | Insurance Bill | We, the undersigned, demand of the United States Sen- ate and House of Representatives, the enactment of a bill shall be based upon the following measures: IMMEDIATE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE FULL WAGES | 1. That a system of Federal government unemployment in- surance be immediately established by an Act of Con- gress and made immediately effective, guaranteeing full wages to all workers wholly or through any cause whatsoever, for the entire period of IMMEDIATE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AT FULL WAGES. That unemployment insurance be paid to every unem-| agricultural, office employees, and afl other categories of wage labor, native or foreign born, citizen or non-citizen, white and Negro, men and women, and without discrim- | ination against any race, color, age, or political opinion. | No worker shall be deprived of unemployment insurance because of refusal to take the place of strikers or to work | for less than union rates of pay. INSURANCE AT THE EXPENSE OF THE EMPLOYERS AND THE GOVERNMENT. That the full funds for unemployment insurance shall be | war preparations and by taxation upon the capital and profits of corporations and trusts and also by sharply upward taxation upon all incomes over $5,000.00. In no instance shall there be any contributions levied upon the workers in any form whatsoever for this insurance. 4. That the unemployment insurance fund shall be admin- istered and controlled by the workers, through commit- tees elected by the workers themselves. FOR OTHER FORMS OF SOCIAL INSURANCE. 5. That social insurance be paid to workers to the amount of full wages to compensate for loss of wages through sickness, accident, old age, maternity, etc. UNITED STATES; AT oi partly unemployed, youth, whether industrial or | from funds now set aside for | THE WORKERS. @ SM on the company owned patch. Only the highway in this vicinity is not company property. Vigilant guard by the miners has thus far saved his life. Yesterday at nightfall, Dan Brooks, Gertrude Logan and a miner walked out onto the highway near the com- pany owned store. A carload of gun thugs drove up behind them and tried to provoke them. They flashed their headlights on the three, just as the gunthugs of Harlan did when they killed the two miners at the swimming pool relief kitchen. The miner was able to get away and mobilize the miners’ defense corps. It was this action, and the gun thugs’ fear of the well organized miners, that kept them from shoot- ing. They hung out of the side of their car leveling their revolvers at the two strike organizers. The next morning, the two who had been hahrassed, along with a group of 30 miners who form the bulk of the defense corps, marched by the company store, where the gunmen hang out, to demonstrate that the miners will not be ter- rorized. Blair’s gun thugs and KY. MINERS MOBILIZE TO e : (CONTINUED FROM PAGE UNE) PINEVILLE, Ky., Feb. 3.—Another Harlan’ miner has been “taken for a ride” by Sheriff ASH INJUNCTION ‘The miners here are mobilizing to help pull out the Rex mine, owned by the same company that runs the Peabody mine. ‘The miners met immediately after the show of terrorism on the part of the coal operators gun thugs and Planned their action. They passed @ resolution declaring they would not permit the operators fo clamp down a reign of terror such as they have in Harlan County. The miners have all been out on strike since Jan. Ist. The resolution called for a struggle for unemploy- ment insurance, endorsing the Feb. 4th mobilizations, calling for a fight against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union. Miners’ Demands The miners put forward among their demands the right to trade anywhere they please, and the right to have as guests in their homes whomever they please, re- gardless of the fact that their shacks afe on company-owned property. They stressed the struggle for the elementary rights to or- ganize, strike, picket, hold mass meetings and free speech. * another member of the , Executive Strike Committee has been jailed in Pineville for criminal syndicalism. Shortly after midnight last Saturday, six Harlan deputies waded through flood water up to their waists to get to the home of Cleveland Brackett, National Miners Union local, ‘They ordered Brackett to get out of bed and dress and when he re- fused, deputy Lee Fleenor, admitted the murder of Baldwin and Moore, beat him about the head with his gun butt and then pulled him out of bed. The only clothes Brackett had on were his overalls that his wife had just washed and which were still in the wash tub. ‘The gun thugs forced Brackett to put them on and him out of the house. SBrackett’s five children, aJl young, cried so loudly that neighbors were awakened and rushed outdoors to learn what was happening. The deputies aimed at the onlook- ers and ordered them back into their houses, or be killed. ‘The deputies carried Brackett some distance and then said that so many people had seen the kidna>ping, that they would not kill him but that he would have to be out of the country by three o'clock that afternoon, Brackett remained at his home un- til then and barely escaped through a back window, as three carloads of deputies drew up in front of his house to see if he had left. Brackett has been hiding in an- other county since. The miner jailed for criminal syn- dicalism is Bige Wilson, one of the most capable and best loved strik- ers. A warant for him was issued in Middlesboro, but was executed in Pineville. Bond has been fixed at. 12-MONTH SUBSCRIPTION TO __ ‘THE DAILY WORKER $5,000. It ts reported that Harlan deputies have criminal syndicalism warrants out for six others, Brackett refused to let them enter. active member of the Harlan and broke in the door when | All Central China Held By Chinese Red Army (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Chinese Soviet Republic is to be ac- companied by armed intervention a- gainst the Soviet Union as the im- perialists seek both to overcome their mission.of the Chinese. The Japanese military then threatened to hold the Soviet Union responsible for the re- fusal to permit the line to be used for transportation of troops. The Soviet Union has maintained a strict neutrality, refusing the use of the railway to the Chinese troops as well. A Peiping, China, dispatch reports |that the capture of Harbin was im- minent yesterday as a Japanese army of over 13,000 fought back the Chin- ese defenders of the city. The Jap- anese announced a few days ago that they would proceed from Harbin to- ward the Soviet frontier. White Guards Getting Ready For Attack On Workers’ Russia Soviet newspapers yesterday laid stress on the Japanese intentions in northern Manchuria and on White Guard activities in Prague, Czecho- slovakia, in connection with the mob- ilization of White Guards by the yap- anese in Manchuria, The Soviet papers also reported that the French and Polish military authorities were aware of Japan's intention to invade Manchuria long before September 18, when the Japanese bombarded Muk- den and began their seizure of Man- churia . The Japanese resumed their attack yesterday on Shanghai, raining death upon the Chinese workers in Chapei and other sections by bombing planes, warships and field guns. ‘The Chin- ese troops defending Shanghai in de- fiance of the orders of Chiang Kai- shek are reported to have repulsed the Japanese troops and to have sunk a@ Japanese destroyer and cripped two other Japanese warships. The Jap- anese, enraged by their defeat, have threatened to wipe the Chapei dis- trict off the map. More than. 10,000 Chinese workers were killed in the first bombardment of the Chapei sec- tion four days ago. Japanese Attack Under Protection of Other Imperialists — ‘The Japanese are openly supported by the other imperialists in their at- tacks on the Chinese masses. A Shaghai dispatch admits: “Japanese artillery units were in- stalled on the rigle range at the end of the North Szechuen Road, which is International Settlement property. They thus actually car- ried on their battle from neutral ground, whereas a Chinese soldier if seeking to enter the settlement would be shot.” The International Settlement is po- liced by United States and British troops. Chinese Red Army Controls Central China Alarm is expressed by the imperi- alists over the threat of 8 mass up- rising in Shanghai, where the gen- eral strike. is continuing to spread. With . increasing — effectiveness. A. Shanghai dispatch reports..that a wave of furious mass anger fs sweep- ing the working-class sections . of Shanghai. ‘The same dispatch admits that the Chinese Soviet’ Republic and the Chinese Red Army control most of Central China and expresses the fear that the events in Shanghai will fur- ther strengthen and spread the in. fluence of the Chinese Communists. Tt says: “The repercussion of the events in Shanghai upon the enermous area in Central China where the Reds control practically everything except the garrisoned cities pre- sents a problem staggering to the imagination, for a land surface equivalent to almost half of Europe is certain to be profoundly af- fected.” It is this “problem” that is alarm- ing the imperialists. It is this “pro- blem” the imperialists are trying to solve by rushng their warships up the Yangtze River to spread murder and rapine against the revolutionary Chinese masses, at the same time that they are trying to crush the resistance of the Shanghai workers and pushing their war moves against the Soviet Union. The dispatch further admits that the garrisoned cities which are still held by the Kuomintang forces are encircled by the Chinese Red Army. Situatiin In Hankow Tense as Red Army Beleaguers City. Another Shanghai dispatch reports a tense situation in Hankow, which is beleaguered by the Chinese Red Army, with the workers inside the city threatening an armed uprising support of the Chinese Red Army. The dispatch reports: “The Japanese there, protecting a small, exposed concession, haye erected eleven small forts, dug trenches and strung live-wire bar- ricades on all roads leading from the concession to the Chinese city.” The Kuomintang officials at Han- kow are openly co-operating with the Japanese imperialists. At Peiping and Swatow, too, these betrayers of the Chinese masses have conceded to the in growing antagonisms over the divi- sion of China and to effect a way out of the world crisis of dying capital- ism at the expense of the blood of the toiling masses. The workers of the Pnited States must organize re- sistance against the murderous plans of the imperialists, Fight imperial- ist war and Hunger. Demonstrate to- \day for the demands of the unem- ployed milions for social insurance. Build a fighting united front against war. Demand all war funds for the unemployed. Demonstrate today! Take up the work of building anti- war committees in your factories and shops, in all your organizations! Harbin Menaced by Japanese Army Reports printed in the imperialist press that communications on the Chinese Fastern Railway have been demands of the Japanese to suppress the mass revolutionary movement against the imperialists. Japanese Rush Warships Against Chinese Red Army. Japanese warships are moving up the Yangtze River from Nanking. This is a move directed against the Chinese Red Army and the Chinese Soviet Republic. Nanking warships are reported moving “in the opposite direction"—away from Nanking, The Foreign Office Staff of the ghost Nanking government yesterday followed Chiang Kai-shek in flight from Nanking, which has been under bombardment by Japanese warships. Japanese warships are moving up the Yangtze River from Nanking This move is directed against the interrupted are incorrect. Trains are proceeding according to schedule, The Japanese demanded permission to use the railway for the transport- ation of their troops to Harbin. The Soviet Union replied that the rail- way was under the Joint administra- tion of China and the Soviet Union, and it was therefore necessary for the Japanese to first secure the per- Chinese Red Army and the Chinese Soviet Republic, the only stable force in China and the only force capable of freeing the Chinese masses from the enslavement and oppression otf the imperialists and their Kuomin- tang tools. ‘The war against the Soviet Chinese Republic s a prelude to the armed attack against the Soviet Union. It is Imperialist Invasion Fight the of China! (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) disintegrate the puppet Kuomintang government, it now Was fad & the rising ervolutionary movement inspired by the Communist Party of China. As @ result of the failure by the vicious terror m Manchuria alone to break the resistance of the Chinese people, and mass boycott movements, Japanese imperialism is jumping headlong into a desperate adventure Spreading its bloody tentacles beyond the borders of Manchuria and into Central China. By concentrating the most up-to-date and deadly naval, air and army forces in Shanghai and along the Yangtzé, this nerve-center of the imperialist contradictions in the Pacific, and the holy of holies of the colonial slave-holders, Japanese imperialism alarmed its competitors, and above all American imperialism. The unpostponable dismemberment of China becomes the decisive objective of all the imperialist powers. The guarantee of the greatest share in this booty is the goal of each of them. It is for this purpose that Wall Street is concentrating its armed forces in Chinese waters, mobilizing for war. At the initiation of Japanese operations in Shanghai, United States and other imperialist powers did not interfere until the strengthening of the Japanese military forces and position began to endanger their imper- jalist interésts.. The representatives of American imperialism in China, the rich ladies and gentlemen, calmly observed from the roofs of thetr skyscrapers the burning of homes in the thickly populated Chinese see- tion of Shanghai, while American volunteers used their bayonets to keep the Chinese refugees out of the International Settlement. ‘The former leader of the Socialist International, the vicious enemy of the Soviet Union, Ramsay MacDonald, hinted that there was no other way to defend the imperialist concessions against the “mob” in the colonies than the action-of the Japanese-in -Shanghat. American imperialisth not only applies the same methods in Nica- tagua, Haiti, Cuba, Philippines, Porto Rico and Panama, but precisely now Admiral Yancey Williams of the United Stetes Navy is preparing in Hankow the bloody bath against the “approaching red menace,” as exemplified and perfected by the Japanese Admiral Shiozowa in Shanghai. Workers! The Chinese Soviet Congress addressed a direct appeal to the American workers to support the Chinese revolution against imper- ialist intervention. The decisive movement is here! Hoover's hypocritiea) Phrase “defense of lives and property of American citizens,” is nothing but a smokescreen which always covers the robbery and plunder of all ths imperialist powers, and is it not under this slogan that Japanese im- perialism is raging in Shanghai, shooting down and murdering thousands of unarmed Chinese workers? The interests of Morgan, Rockefeller, Ford and the other American exploiters that the Hoover government call on you to “defend” in Chins are the same forces that shoot down workers at home, slash wages, force millions to face starvation and prepare for greater attacks against the whole American working class in the present economic crisis. The same exploiters that are preparing the slaughter of Chinese men, women and children, are the ones who starve you and your wives and children at home by refusing unemployment insurance and by driving down wages. Do not believe the lying propaganda of the American Federation of Labor leaders that this war will create employment and return “pros- perity.” The war is the way out of the crisis sought by the capitalists who are interested in the annihilation of millions upon millions of “su- perfluous” workers, the starvation of tens of millions, and the reaping of huge war profits as in the last world war at their expense. = Do not believe the lying pacifist phrases of the fakers who call them- selves Socialists, but who in deeds are allies of the imperialist bandits as shown by their international action in the last world war and in the preparation of intervention in the Soviet Union. They will repeat that war can be prevented by petitions to the capitalist government, by in- fluencing the bourgeois parties, by appealing to humanitarian sentiment of the capitalists and their henchmen. Expose and reject this most dan- gerous lie, especially now when American imperialism is trying to deceive you that the imperialist diplomats and the League of Nations are work- ing for “peace,” The Communist Party warns you that the fight against war and for the defense of the Soviet Union is a great historical task which demands the mobilization of all your forces, the organization of your activities in all forms of the class struggle, in preparing and carrying out mass revo- lutionary actions. The Communist Party openly declares that this activ- ity does not at all correspond to the tremendous intensity with which American imperialism is instigating war against the Soviet Union and against the Chinese people. Only through mass revolutionary actions can the workers hinder the military intervention that is already going op in China, and hold back the imperialist dagger that is poised over the very heart of the Chinese revolution. Only by the workers raising their class consciousness and organizing their forces in the factories, mines, shops, railroads, ships, by freeing the trade union from the grasp of the bureaucrats and traitors, by fighting against the American capitalists persistently, by giving their best and most devoted members to the Communist Party, will they carry on a real revolutionary struggle against preparation for war against the U. S. S. R. Only by stecling cadres and training the broadest masses in daily struggles and revolutionary actions will the workers prepare their forces for the decisive work of converting the imperialist war into a class war against the bourgeoisie. Unemployed ,workers! You are picked by the bourgeoisie as the “cheapest” cannon fodder for imperialist war. This should not happen! All workers should meet the demagogy of the imperialists and their henchmen by an organized resistance. To their lies about “fighting for your country and your interests” the unemployed must answer with the demands of the great National Hunger March: “All war funds should be turned over for unemployment insurance!” “Distribution of the Federal Farm Board reserves of wheat and cotton, which the yuse for war prep- arations, for the unemployed.” The $2,000,000,000 that is now being turned over to the bankers as an emergency war measure should be turned over to the workers for unemployment insurance. Negro workers! The revolutionary colonial masses throughout the world are fighting your fight against imperialist slavery and for the right of self-determination, for the overthrow of the imperialist yoke. In this fight the Chinese workers and peasants are in the front ranks. They are making the greatest sacrifices in the struggle against the international lynchers, and building their Soviets to break the imperialist chain at one of its most vital links. Follow the example of the Chinese workers and poor farmers! Or- ganize your forces against imperialism! Drive out of your ranks the bourgeois reformists who are trying to sell you out after the manner of Chiang Kai-shek and his clique. The Soviet Union, which set the example of proletarian solidarity and suppott between all nationalities is your fatherland. All forces for its defense. Ex-servicemen! You know the horrors of the bloody imperialist battlefields. You saw face to face the terrible truth which is covered by the lies: “save the world for democracy.” Morgan, Rockefeller and the other imperialists were enriched while 10,000,000 workers were slaughtered, with 20,000,000 wounded and crippled on the battlefields. They seek w repeat this again at the expense of new millions thrown into the carnage. Bring your experiences to the young workers! To the soldiers and sail- ors! To the barracks and ships! Young workers! The capitalist agencies of war propaganda, the church, the school, the press, the Boy Scouts, the military organizations ot the bosses, concentrate on poisoning your minds, to drive you to war. Through unemplyment, starvation and spreading of misery, they take from you the perspective of the future. to disarm you in the fight against the temptation of mock war and jingoism. Your future belongs with your class! This future is shown to you in the flourishing construction of so- clalism.in the Soviet Union. In the first line of the fighters for the vie- tory of the working class in the victory of the proletarian revolution. Working Women! The capitalist program of unemployment and starvation is especially heavy on your shoulders, in the shops as well as in the home, The bloody burden of war will likewise fall heaviest on you. The bourgeois and socialist pacifists are trying to mislead your hate against the war and to direct it into the futile channels of non- resistance and pacifism. Recall the advice of Lenin during the last World ‘War—tell your sons: Use your rifle when it will be given to you to put an end to exploitation, poverty, and wars. Workers and farmers! Organize the struggle against the imperialist war. Form a powerful, invincible, united front, embracing the workers in the shops, mines, mills and countryside. Organize anti-war committees everywhere, in shops, unions, workers’ organizations of all kinds. Join ané support the Communist Party, the leader of the struggle against im- perialist war, and for the overthrow of capitalism. \ Down with the bloody imperialist invasion of China! } Demand thewithdrawal of all warships and armed forees from Cute! Hands off Soviet Chins, and the Chinese masses! Deferd the Soviet Union, the Fatherland of the Toilers! CENTRAL COMMITTEE, C. P. U. 8, part of the world-wide offensive of ;ing unemployed millions in the imperialists against the toiling |“home” countries. masses of the whole world. It is part} All out on the streets today. of the seme imperialist hunger pro- onstrate against hunger! Denggumgwet> gram which denies relief to the starv- | sgainet impertetiah wart i 1 ee si » the