The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 5, 1932, Page 1

fy WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central LY, WO A Section of the Communist International) orker Party U.S.A. eee Collect Money, Scrape Up Every Penny to Save “Daily” Vol. IX, No. 31 = Emtered as second- at New Yerk, N.Y. luna rontter at the Post Office der the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5 crTy EI DITION ———— _Price 3 Cents __ UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE DEMAND RINGS THRU NATION Japanese. Nearing ‘Harbin; Threaten U.S.S.R.50,000 CHEER ; JAPANESE VENT FURY ON SHANGHAI MASSES AFTER MANY DEFEATS With Heavy Artillery; Rake Native Sections Use Bombing Planes and Machine Guns On Refugees Kuomintang Officials Declare Martial Law At Hankow In Fear of Mass Revolt The Japanese are . are reported to be nearing Harbin in line with their openly announced plans to seize that North Manchurian city as a base for their further advance toward the So- NEW night at 8 p. m. Negro Rights, Hansu Chan of the on! Union! imperialist war! Manhattan Lyceum! Anti-Imperialist League Calls Workers to Anti-War Meet YORK.—Werkers and anti-imperialists of New York, respond- | ing to the call of the Anti-Imperialist League of the United States, will stege a mass rally against imperialist war and for the defense of Soviet China and the Soviet Union, at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., Friday | Speakers will be I. Amter of the Communist Party, the Anti-Impcrialist League, C. Alexander of the League of Struggle. for | ialists, and B. Tanaka of the Japanese Workers Club, ‘The imperialist war against.the Chinese masses and Soviet China is War on the Chinese massés is a step toward war against the Soviet All workers and anti-imperialists must rally to fight against Alt out for tonight's anti-imperialist meeting at Wm. Simons of Alliance of the Chinese Anti-Imper- viet border. Harbin is the chief city on the Chinese Eastern Railway, which is jointly operated by China and the Soviet Union. The Chinese defenders under Gen. Ting have retreated to the east of the city. without further resistance. BULLETIN Following several days of defeat at the hands of the Chinese sold- jers and workers defending Shang- hai, the Japanese yesterday turned their heaviest naval guns on the working-class section of Chapei, which is still held by the Chinese in spite of several farious on- slaughts by the Japanese. Japan is rushing an army divi- ston to Shanghai to reinforce the marines who have been defeated. The Washington government ad- mitted yesterday that U. S. marines and other forces in the Interna- tional Settlement at Shanghai had been used to shield the Japanese in thelr land attacks, which were launched from the so-called neutral Settlement. Several shells from Japanese warships fell in the Set- tlement yesterday. The Settlement is also menaced by the fires started by the Japanese in the Chinese sec- tions of the city, The United States and British are demanding the withdrawal of all Japanese forces in the Settlement. . o 8 The Soviet Ambassador to Japan The Japanese expect to take the city White Guards in the city are pre- _————-~paring to welcome the Japanese, with whom they have an agreement for armed intervention against workers’ Russia. At Shanghai, South China, in spite of a terrific bombardment of the Chinese forts and the working-class sections, the Japanese were repeatedly | | replused yesterday by Chinese soldiers | |and workers. Chinese women are| (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) yesterday called upon the Japanese Foreign Minister to protest against the attempts of the Japanese to use the western portion of the Chin- ese Eastern Railway for transporta- tion of troops from Tsitsihar to Harbin, The Soviet Union had pre- viously informed the Japanese that since the line was under the joint operation of China and the Soviet Union it was necessary for the Jap- anese to get permission from the Chinese for the use of the railway. 0 = It is understood that the Soviet Ambassador again broached the subject of a non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and Japan. The Japanese a few weeks ago rejected the Soviet proposal for such a pact. Thomas Shows His Colors the light of the imperialist war in China, with the robber powers poising for an attack against the Soviet Union, the true role of the Socialist Party is again revealed. Norman Thomas, leading spokesman for the Socialists, made a public speech in favor of “united acti " of the imperialist powers, absolving American imperialism from responsibility in the imperialist war against the Chinese masses. Norman Thomas, following the policy of the socialist instigators of Voices from Prison Call to All Workers to Rush Funds to Save the Daily ' Worker The crisis in the Daily Worker is still acute. Only $1,919.53 has been received in donations. We are today, printing the following urgent appeal from jail, calling for working class soli- darity in the fight to save the Daily Worker. It is written by Comrade Zaroff from the Tombs Prison in New York where the bosses are holding him following conviction on a framed-up charge of felonious assault. “Today, in face of the economic crisis, of the continuous attacks by the bosses upon the standard of living of the working class, and the continuous attacks by the bosses upon the stand- ard of living of the working class, and on the other hand the revolutionary upsurge of the American masses, the Daily Worker is a powerful weapon in fighting against the whole damnable capitalist system. We cannot imagine one day with the Kentucky miners battling for life, with over 12,000,000 unemployed throughout the country without the Daily Worker. “In the Tombs I find the Daily Worker read eagerly by the workers when they get hold of it, particularly the Negro workers. Iam sure when they get out of prison they will join the ranks of the militant working class. “From behind bars I call upon you workers to rush funds for the only working class paper in the English language the Daily Worker, “Long live the Daily Worker, the powerful weapon of the working class.” * x 6 What is your answer to this appeal from be- hind the bars? Support the drive for $50,000 to save the Daily Worker. Do everything in your power to save the Daily Worker. Rush fands immediately to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York City. Dressmakers! Forward to a Mass United Front Strike Against Slavery and Hunger NEW YORK.—Following the enthusiastic Mecca Temple meeting where the dressmakers voted unanimously for a broad rank and file strike, the United Front Committee issued the | following appeal for support of the coming struggle: “Sister and Brother Dressmakers: “Only a few days are left before =~ Pees you, with united ranks, will go out | Strikes, gangster and police terror. in a determined struggle against long) “Only @ few days are left until the hours, slavery, hunger wages, against dressmakers, right wingers, left unemployment, fake company union CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Trade Union Unity League Calls for Fight on R.R. Cut The shameless sellout of the railroad workers by the American Federation of Labor officials with whose aid the railroad magnates were able to put over a ten per cent wage cut has called forth bitter protest. In an appeal to the railroad workers to organize and fight against this wage cut, the Trade Nnion Unity League, through its National Secretary, William war against the Soviet Union is particularly silent about the imperialist joint action against Harbin. He hides before the whole working class the purport of this “united action” which is directed against the workers’ fatherland and against the Chinese revolution, He calls on Wall Street “to bring Japan to reason,” by itself pursuing the policy of leading in the division of China, the crushing of the revo- lutionary movement and moving its armed forces nearer to the Soviet ‘Union. ‘The foul socialist supporters of imperialism are passing from words to action. They now openly support the wra maneuvers of American im- pertalism, talking peace and “disarmament” in the manner of Hoover and Stimson when the imperialist masters move rapidly to war. The Socialists are trying to lull the workers to passivity, attempting to tie their hands, while imperialism plunges the world into a new slaughter. The Socialist Party of the United States is a worthy pupil of the Socialist International of the last world war. Their role as the chief lackey of imperialism and the worst enemy of the workers must be mer- cilessly Lee Z. Foster, issued the following statement: The A.F.L. and Railroad? | the history of the American labor Brotherhood chiefs have ac- cepted a ten per cent wage cut movement, ‘This betrayal registers another step for the 1,500,000 railroad work-|in the joint wage cutting policy of ers. By this cut in wages, the union leaders make a present to the railroad corporations of about $215,- 000,000 for the next year. This money, coming out of the pockets of the al- ready impoverished mass of railroad workers, will go to fatten the divi- dends of the railroad overlords, the great Morgan, Vanderbilt, Van Swer- ingen nad other railroad interests. Thus is consummated one of the most | brazen and shameless betrayals in the government, the employers and the American Federation of Labor. The gigantic cut in wages will in turn be used as a justification of further onslaught upon. the wages and living standards of the American working class, In agreeing t the wage cut de- manded by the railroad corporations, the railroad union leaders acted en- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) BULLETIN Floyd Broughton, Bell County sheriff, who is suing Vern Smith and the Compro-daily Publishing Co, for $50,000 because his strike- breaking role was exposed to the miners, rahks of the strikers. He recently offered Hickman and Mason, lead- ing members of the Strike Execu- tive, jobs as deputies, They at once told the Executive. PITTSBURGH, Pa.—The National Board of the National Miners Union at its session, Tuesday, Feb. 2, in discussing the heroic struggle of the Kentucky-Tennesee miners, issued the following appezl for the strike relief: “The Kentucky-Tennesee miners, under the leadership of the Na- tional Miners Union, are waging one of the most impcrtent strikes is trying to disrupt the | in the recent history of the Am- | erican working-class, against into- ‘grable starvation and the most brutal terror, The gun rule of the coal operators is being intensified. Mass evictions are being carried out, Conty and Federal courts have issued injunctions azainst the operators ard the ee has strike, Every institution of the coal | NMU Board Appeals for Aid for Heroic Ky. Strike been fully mobilized in an attempt to smash the heroic strike against starvation and terror, “In spite of all the efforts of the coal operators and their gov- ernment to smash the sirike, the miners, Negroand white, men and children are continuing with their strike, determined to defeat starva- tion and terror. One of the great- est obstacles in this life and death struggle is the lack of relief, The relief is the thing that the striking | miners themselves can not produce. The relief must be entire worl:ing- The workers of e especially the mine-s must the strike of the Kentucky-Ten- nesee miners, “The National Board of the Na- tional Miners Union calls upon the workers of all industrics to donate one hour's wages to the re'ief fund ot the strike, It pledges itself to mobilize the miners all over the country to give their share in sup- port to their heroic comrades. “All funds should be sent to the Workers International Relief, 16 West 2lst St, New York City, in charge of the relief cammaign, F. BORICH, Secre.ary. ven by the KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Feb. 4—, the: Congressman Eslick of Tennessee, one of the vicious members of the Fish Committee, who particularly leveled his attack against the Ne- gro workers, has introduced a bill in Congress for a National Crim- inal Syndicalism law, on the model of the Kentucky act, providing for } Woodlawn Victims Win Freedom After BLAWNOX, Pa.—Mass pressure has won freedom for Peter Muselin and oners, who have been serving a five- year sentence at the Allegheny | County Workhouse because Commu- | nist literature was found in their | homes. They were paroled February 3 by the Pennsylvania State Pardon | Board, after a two and a half year campaign by the International Labor Defense to set them free. A third Woodlawn prisoner, con- | victed with them in 1929 after de-| for Zima’s daughter in his home, died last October of tuberculosis contract- ed in the prison workshops. This was Milan Resetar. For months the International Labor Defense demand- |ed that Resetar be removed from prison and given adequate medical attention. All officials ignored these communications and protests or an- swered that nothing could be done. Resetar was called a “fake,” a “malin- gerer,” and an “essentric” by the prison doctor. Within a month he was dead. All three workers, Croatian by birth, were sentenced to five years by Beaver County court solely on the ground of their political beliefs and because the works of Lenin, a pam- phlet describing working conditions in the Jones and Laughlin Steel Cor- poration, and a bit of red bunting were found in their homes. The prison at Blawnox now vies with the notorious San Quentin in California as the worst class-war dun- geon in America. Over 50 victims of ni this bastille, including Leo Thomp- son, Tom Myerscough, Stella and i sylvania coal strike, Fish Committee Member co Calls for a Nationa Criminal Syndicalist Law | Long Fight by LL.D. Tom Zima, Woodlawn “sedition” pris- | tectives had raided a birthday party | Judge William A. McConnell in the | | coal company terror are now lodged | l the selling of all workers who strike against waze cuis or starvation, Eslick oduces this biil at the moment when the Kentucky and Tennessee miners are fighting starvation, and their levdevs are jailed under any pretext, under the state criminal syndicalist law. In Tennessee the workers are organ- izing uremp‘oyed councils, fighting for immediate relief and unemploy- ment insurance. The whole object of the Fish Committee was to put through just such a law, directed against all workers’ organ zations, and par- ticularly against the most militant sections, as well as against foreign born workers. Press Teday The Young Worker, | forced to suspend publication last week becarse of lack of fwls, ap- pears today with a number of very important and_ interesting articles, The Manifesto of the Young Communist League on the wor now carried on upon the Chi- | | nese masses, the attacks upon the | Chinese Soviets and the danger of {war upon the Soviet Union is printed in full. Hvery young worker should buy this issue of the Young Worker and read care- fully this manifesto, The paper can be secured at all units of the Young Communist League and at the Workers’ Bookshop, 35 E. 12th | st which was ' | City Hall, DEMANDS MADE ON CITY COV’ Tammany Officials Refuse Relief; Delegation Calls For Organization of 79 Councils To Continue Fight Boston Cops Attack Parade; Five Workers Arrested; March In Spite Of Driving Snow NEW YORK.—Enthusiastic, militant and well organized, a mass demonstration of work- . |ers yesterday marched from Union Square to | braving the downpouring rain and | sleet and the bitter cold, to back up the presen- | tation of the demands by a delegation elected by the workers ; to the Tammany politicians. | “We want unemployment insurance!” the main slogan that rang out repeatedly as the parade, sixteen blocks long, marched along Broadway and encircled city hall. Around 50,000 workers were massed around + City Hall. Mayor Jimmie Walker, who has been vacationing continually during the past year, claimed he was sick and could not see the unemployed workers’ delegation. His henchman, was mayor, listened to the demands, and rejected them, saying he had no reply to give to the starving millions in New York City. McKee winced when Carl Winters, spokesman for the delegation and McKee, acting) (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.) Answering the call of the Unemployed neils and the Communist..Party tens’ of thousands of workers in scores of cities throughout the country demonstrated on Na- tional Unemployment Insurance Day yesterday, despite cold, rain and in many places snowstorms. With city after city reporting a tremendous increase in unemployment, mass starvation and misery, with an increase of 50 per cent in unemployment in 106 cities reported in the United States Senate, workers all over the country showed their determination to fight until the Hoover Hunger | government was forced to grant fed- eval Unemployment Insurance at f wages to be paid for by the bosses and their government. Featuring all the demonstrations, were marches by the workers on the city government in demand for local relief to all unemployed, part time | and striking workers and their fam- ilies. ployment Insurance. On to sronger organization! Build committees among the unemployed, build block and neighborhood committees, or- ganize the workers on the bread lines, soup lines, in the flop houses! Build the Unemployed Councils! Rally the masses of workers into the organized fight against unem- ployment, starvation and imperial- ist war! These demonstrations will serve as a basis for immensely strength- ening the whole fight for Unem- | ADDITIONAL NEWS ON PAGE 3 USSR Proves in Practice Superiority of Socialism Over Capitalist System “We are building houses for workers, schools, clubs, theatres and incemas, and raising the cultural level of the toilers of our country to the highest degree.” : | MOSCOW, Feb. 4.—Debates at the 17th Conference of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union continue on Mo- lotov’s and Kuibyshev’s reports regarding the directions and |compilation of the second Five-Year Plan. The morning and evening sessions on February 2nd dealt Hoover Issues NEW YORK.—The severity with | which the crisis has hit the Wall | Street financial world was indirectly | admitted yesterday by President Hoover in his desperate plea for the return of mor than a billion and a half dollars of hoarded money to the banks. ‘This money had been steadily with- drawn from the banks as a result of the panic developing over the record failure of banking and industrial in- stitutions all over the country. It is at present being kept in strong boxes, end other hiding places. The effect Anna Rasefsky, leaders in the Penn- | of hoarding is to diminish the basis ‘for “sound” extension of credit, @With questions raised in the two re- ports on the second 5 Year Plan and the building up of socialism. In his report, Kuibyshey enumerated the | difficulties o fthe fist 5 Year Plan, | the struggle against the kulaks and Desperate Appeal for Aid to Wall St. The Reconstruction Finance Cor-| poration which provides for an ex-| | tension of two billion dollars of credit |to railroads, banks and insurance companies is based on thin air. The use of this credit makes necessary a huge supply of money, Unless part of this money, now outstanding in the form of hoarded money is returned, it will become necessary for the gov- ernment to resort even sooner than | wreckers, the capitalist encirclement and the low level of industrial devel. opment of the country. Kuibyshey’s Speech “We repulsed,” said Kuibyshev, ‘all attacks of the class enemy and mobilized all our forces applying new methods in socialist competi- tion, and we succeeded in fulfilling the 5 Year Plan in four years. In competition with the espitalist it expected to “starting the printing presses to work.” The money thus issued, being fiat money, and backed by a government faced by a bud- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) world, we proved in practice the advantage of socialist economy, Unemployment, poverty and starva- tion which characterize the position (CONTINUED ON PAGE THRER? ihn egret oome eases _ MASS ANTI-WAR RALLY AT MANHATTAN LYCEUM TONIGHT AT Spm EEE SSE RES Nate maaan sre rh '