The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 8, 1932, Page 3

WHITE GUARDS HAIL JAPANESE SEIZURE OF HARBIN AS STEP IN MOVE TO SOVIET BORDER (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONB) press the anti-Soviet nature of the moves around Harbin. It says: “The ‘independent government’ | promises ‘White’ Russians citizen- | ship and a chance to avenge the | overthrow of Russia by Com- manism.” Stripped of its hypocritical yer- piage this sentence means that the Japenese are mobilizing the White Guards against the Soviet Union on the basis of the attempt to over-/| throw the rule of the workers and peasants in the Soviet Union and to} re-establish the murderous rule of | | Trarist-capitalism. That the Japa- nese now intend to force war the Soviet Union is plainly stated by the dispatch: “white? Russians, cheering the | entry of the Japanese brigades, in- | terpret the coming of Japan as influence and the forerunner of a forced Sino-Soviet clash, “Meanwhile, consular officials here foresee a prompt drive to the | Siberian frontier at Manchuli, bringing the Japanese face to face with the Russians.” ‘The imperialist correspondente at) Moscow admit the firm peace policy of the Soviet Union in face of these | monstrous provocations. A dispatch to the New York ‘Tjmes says: OVER 50,000 CHILDREN IN NEW YORK SCHOOLS HUN- WEST DEMAND J {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) for a short time. Several hours later, while walking on the street, he was again arrested, taken to the police station, finger printed, photographed and finally released. The excuse for the second arrest and finger printing was that he was “supected of being some one wanted by the police.” The recently organized City Unem- ployed Council is intensifying its ef- forts to force relief for the unem- ployed. ures “Whatever may happen in the Far East, with the exception of an invasion of Soviet territory or un- provoked attack on Soviet property or nationals, which at the moment seems unlikely, the Soviet will not allow itself to be dragged into the war or be involved in the Sino- Japanese imbroglio in any Way.” ‘The southern section of the Chi- nese Eastern Railway has been oc- sounding the death knell of Soviet | cupied by the Japanese. SOCIALISTS COVER UP WAR PLANS OF U.S. IN FAKE “PEACE R ALLY” (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) upon the better judgement of their rulers.” Instead of exposing the act- ive part that the United States gov- ernment is taking in the war now raging in China, Thomas covered up the imperialist war policy of Wall St. by saying that the “administration at Washington missed a great oppor- tunity to prevent the present crisis in Shanghai when Ambassador Dawes refused to read the documents placed before him by the Chinese delegation in Paris and failed to permit our nation to join with others in an eco- nomic boycott against Japan.” This is nothing but a defense of the imperialist policy of the United States government in the form of a gentle “criticism” of the “failure” of the capitalist class here to seize an op- portunity for stopping war. It is the most brazen boss propaganda to the offect that United States imperialism actually wants to stop war if it can be show nthe “right way.” By his defense of the League of Nations, Thomas still further followed out the policy of the Wall Street gov- ernment of disarming the working class by filling them with pacifist il- lusions, The League of Nations is not an organization for peace that “failed” to prevent war in China be- cause it was slow or “indecisive.” The | League of Nations is one of the strongest war weapons of the imperi- alists. It has openly accepted the seizure of Manchuria and is now do- ing everything in its power to cover up the bloody imperialist war on the Chinese workers and peasants, the attacks on the Chinese Soviets and the war preparations‘against the So- viet Union. ‘The workers in the Socialist party must see through the fine words of the hypocritical preacher Thomas. The policy of the official leaderShip of that organization is exactly in keeping with the policy of the Wall Street government at Washington. ‘Only the Communist Party, by its unrelenting struggle against the cap- italist class on every field, fights the war policy of the bosses. Only the Communist Party is conducting a re- volutionary struggle against the com- ing imperialist war. Workers! Join the Communist Party! Demand the recall of all American troops and warships now in Chinese waters! De- mand hands off the Chinese masses and the Chinese Soviets! Defend the Soviet Union against the attacks of the imperialist world! FRENCH ASK WORLD ANTI- USSR FRONT ‘The French imperialists came out openly at Geneva Thursday with a proposal that the Japanese seizure of Manchuria be further endorsed by the other imperialists by giving Japan @ mandate over Manchuria. 'The pro- posal which is reported to have been . | made “in unofficial French circles,” is in line with the secret agreement eisting between Japan and the other imperialist powers for war on the Chinese Soviet Republic and the Soviet Union. A Geneva dispatch reports: “This idea, talked of quietly for some time, reached an advance stage when it was openly advocated at an unoffical public meeting here last night. A French publicist, leading the discussion, told his international audience that Chinese soldiers were bandits and their ot- ficers brigands and China should be placed definitely under Japanese management as a League mandate.” . . NEW YORK.—A sharp airing of imperialist contradic- tions accompanied by a general agreement among all the rob- ber nations on Japan’s entry into Manchuria and the threat- ened imperialist attack on the U.S.S.R. marked the third act of the disarmament farce in Geneva Thursday With war actually on in China and the im-¢ perialist nations rushing troops to the battle area at top speed, the dip- lomats of these warring nations still try to hide their war preparations against the Soviet Union by con- tinuing their hypocritical peace talks. The war in the Far East was brought into the conferences as merely a side issue. The Spanish delegate, Senor de Madariagra, dis- turbed the conferees for a moment by demanding that the Japanese del- egation be ousted. The American delegation, Hugh Gibson, however, smothered out the matter by paying « hurried visit to the Japanese Am~ bassador to London ,Tsuneo Mat- ajett ae ii £- a free hand for building up their armaments and are forming new military-political blocks for new imperialist wars. “There is only one direct proposal directed toward actual] disarma- ment, It was introduced by the U. S$. 8. R. This proposal is for a complete actual disarmament of all countries. The U. 8S. S. R. still believes that this is the only pro- posal meeting the interests of dis- armament and world peace. “As a minimum for the coming year, the U. S. S. R. proposes at connection all indica- it to the growing danger peace. Thh’ deepening erisis makes more acute existing contradictions between imperialist governments and the internal conditions in countries through the sharp- of class antagonisms, “The economic struggle, in con- nection with the various measures of protectionism and super-protec- & i “The danger of new military im- perlalist adventures is constantly growing. This situation requires a maximum vigilance and we again emphasize our fundamental prin- tiple: " “We do not need any other coun- try’s land, but neither will we give up an inch of ours.” Intern] Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 1 UNION SQUARE 8TH FLOOR All Work Done Under Personal Cure and children now attending public schools in New York City are in im- mediate need of relief. These chil- dren because of the unemployment of their parents are forced to go to school without food and many times with but one meal a day. | This state of affairs were admitted \ indirectly by the statement issued by | committee. At present a measly at- tempt is made to provide sandwiches to 35,000 children, The rest of the children are forced to go without food or decent clothing. The near bankrupt City of New York which has enough money to pay graft to Tammany politicians refuses to pay one cent for relief to the children of unemployed and part time workers. ‘The $108,000 that is now used for relief is gotten entirely by taxing the salaries of the already underpaid teachers. It was announced a few days ago Superintendent of Schools | O'Shea that this tax in the form of @ “voluntary contribution” would be increased to five per cent to meet the need for $400,000 a month. Although the tax was masked un- der an optional clause, the state- ment of O'Shea that the “New York teaching system has no room for teachers who would not contribute” five per cent of their salary is in- | dication that the teachers are being | blackpacked into contributing. ROTTEN CONDITIONS IN CHI. FLOP HOUSES BRING 41 CASES OF INFLUENZA CHICAGO, Ill—The conditions of the young workers and adults in the flop houses are unbearable and are getting worse daily. In spite of the demands of the workers in these hell holes for better food, sanitary conditions, and medical attention for the sick, the grafters of the Emmerson relief have done | nothing to remedy the situation. Every time the workers hold demon- strations in the front of these flops the police answer with tear gas, jail- ings, and beat up the workers. The other day 41 cases of flu were report- ed to the Board of Health. 27 of these were from 509 N. Union Street flop house. Many more are being taken out daily as the result of the pressure put upon them by the workers, But still these grafters are not do- ing anything to stop this flu epidemic. ‘The young workers are the driving force in these struggles and the most militant. The members of the Unem~ ployed Council and the flop house committee are mobilizing the workers against the rotten conditions of the workers in these flop houses and in | demand for immediate action on the | part of these grafters to remedy the situation, Thugs Rob W.LR. Warehouse; Relief Volunteers Needed (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) this campaign is a shock brigader in the counter-offensive of the workers against the vicious attacks of the bosses upon the living stand- ards of the working class!” Hundreds of miners who had gath- ered at nearby mines to aid the Glendon miners smash the Straight | Creek federal injunction were pre- vented from reaching Straight Creek by flood waters which still covered the roads, but mass picketing there will take place just as soon as the water recedes. A new flood of-lies against the National Miners Union has been let loose by the coal operators, preachers and the United Mine Workers. The coal operators and the U. M. W. A. openly unite to say that the National Miners Union is an illegal organiza~- tion whose only function is to destroy religion, the home, etc. and point to the jailings and kidnappings as proof of the illegality of the N. M. U. and immunity to these things which membership in the U.M.W.A. brings. ‘The U.MW.A. is increasingly active all along the line. They have ac- complished nothing as yet, but re- main a great danger here because of the past underestimations. Kentucky preachers in a Knoxville conference yesterday called the N. M. U. unchristian, they attacked all outsiders and the say the operators are more to be pitied than the min- ers because they are losing money. Terror is so vicious throughout the strike area that the miners who re- mained at work are being discharged pif they are caught reading the Knox- ville News Sentinel, a “liberal” paper like the World Telegram. So bitter is the operators’ attack on the National Miners Union, that the Kay-Jay miners have been giving the lying promise that they would get higher wages if they leave the N.'M. U. and go back to work. The operators an d the U. M. W. A. are also spreading the lie that the fed- eral injunction applies to all struck mines. ‘There has been no mass back to work movement anywhere, but a few hundred are dribbling back to work.’ GRY, WITHOUT CLOTHES | NEW YORK.—At least fifty thous- | the New York School Relief Fund | MORGANTOWN, West Va., Feb. 7. —A huge demonstration was held by the Unemployed Council and the Na- | tional Miners Union and its branches | at Morgantown, W. Va., in front of | the county building at two p. m. | Feb. 4th. The marchers began the march from Liberty at 12 p. m., led by Com- rade Rivera, on foot to Morgantown, with banners and slogans. The revolutionary unions and the Communist Party really made the de- monstration a success. The march was led from Jerome and Sabraton by Comrade Garbaino, who successfully led the march. The following speakers took the jPlatform in Morgantown, Comrade | Aikens, a Negro comrade opened fire | by exposing the role of the charity organizations, the government in the present war in the East. Comrade | Mike Stone was next on the platform with an excellent address exposing the role of “Father, Cox and his fake program’ on the war danger, the role of the socialist party, and pointing | out the leadership of the Communist Party. He also exposed the role of the A, F. of L. and all its affiliations. Comrade Alice, a young comrade who also participated in the National Hun- ger March to Washington also spoke March, and Comrade Rivera closed with a short address exposing the role of the city and county governments also reading a resolution on the war danger and the demands of the un- employed. ‘The demonstration was attended by over 700 persons, who despite the drastic change in the weather, very enthusiastically listened, and also adopted the demands, and also the resolution on the the war danger. They immediately elected a com- mittee of 15 to go and present the de- mands to the county commissioners, who of course were not present, but the committee will go back to see them Monday at 10 a. m. and will do so until some results are obtained. The demands are as follows: 1. Immediate Telief consisting of $10 weekly for each unemployed worker and $3 for each dependent. 2. No discrimination in the distri- bution of relief because of color, creed or nationality, 3. Free rent, light, coal and water for the unemployed and part time | workers at the expense of the gov- ernment and the capitalists, 4. The abolition of the sale of pro- perty for the non-payment of taxes. 5. Free lunches, shoes, clothing and all school supplies for the chil- dren of the unemployed at the ex- pense of the government. 6. That all relief be distributed by the Unemployed Council. 7. Free medical attention to the unemployed. 8. Endorsement of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. Comrade William Beals of the Un- employed Council acted as chairman of the meeting. There was no inter- ference of any sort, only lies of the capitalist press. A resolution was | Passed against the imperialist war in China and for the Defense of the So- viet Union. ees MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 7.— In spite of bitterly-cold zero weather, thousadns of workers came to Bridge Square for the Feb. 4th demonstra- tion and hundreds of them parti- |cipated in a pitched battle with the police who were forced to call re- | inforcements before they could clear | the square, by the free use of black- | jacks and revolver bytts on the heads | of the workers, Five thousand work- |ers were participating in the dem- onstration when the battle broke out. At three o'clock three columns formed on the North Side, South Side and the City Hall and the par‘ ade converged on Bridge® Square at four o'clock. When the North Side column by the A. F. of L. headquarters, ail the workers in that hall joined the parade with their banners. Workers from the flop- houses joined the parade with the South Side column. The column starting opposite the City Hall pa- raded through the downtown district, thronged with thousands of specta- tors, before reaching the square, which was guarded by police, with swarms of reserves hidden away in buildings, hotels and stores nearby; they were especially guarding the store sagainst food raids. Columns 1 and 2, on reaching the square, encircled the square and marched around it twice, its num- bers swelling in the meantime by throngs of workers who joined in the shouting of slogans and the carrying of banners. The police were franctically trying to clear the square and keep the workers moving, but when Column 3 arrived they marched right into the center of the square, followed by the other two columns, and the police were helpless for a few minutes, As the workers and defense corps massed solidly around the speakers box where the chairman opened the DEMONSTRATIONS IN SOUTH AND sacoeahiicts ment insurance. Youngstown steel workers will gather in huge indoor mass meeting protesting attack on Chinese masses and against imperialist war Friday at the Workers Center, 334 East Fed- eral St. WARREN, Ohio, Feb, 7—Two hun- Hippodrome Hall OBLESS INSURANCE) but were driven back. ‘They then! called the waiting reinforcements| dred gather in and charged the crowd with drawn | as snow blizzard prevents outdoor blacjacks and guns. | meeting. : " The workers turned from the | ane speakers’ stand to meet the attack! KALAMAZOO, Mich, Feb. 7— and th battle began. The cops swung | Through the persistent efforts of the | their blackjacks and struck down| Workers of Kalamazoo under the | workers with revolver butts, but such | leadership of the Unemployed Coun- a stiff resistance was put up that cil, the city commission furnished the Kuomintang traitors. The fury of , reconditioned and put into service. the masses is resulting in constant | To Use Army Against Workers Here, outbursts, however. The imperialists Too. | are becoming more and more| ‘The United States is rushing more alarmed. A Shanghai dispatch to| warships to supplement the Asiatic the New York Times reflects this| fleet now at Shanghai. Twe more alarm and shows the real cause of | gun boats are on the way from Mae | this alarm. It says: nila. These are to be followed by an | “Sti others believe Shanghat’s | aircraft carrier and a cruiser. crucifixion wil] make China ‘see Frederick H. Payne, assistant see- red’ and turn the whole country | retary of war, stated last night that | over to the Communists.” | the U, S. War Department had “col- | Another opinion expressed by a| lected and classified data on 12,000 | section of the imperialists in Shang- | industrial plants that could be used hai is stated as follows: | to make munitions in an emergency.” | This, cl: tion had been going on “Others cynically declare China had a beating coming and that | for months, as exposed by the Daily on the expehiences of the Hunger | | more police reinforceemnts had to be | called. | ‘The crowd gave a good account of itself and several of the cops were injured and knocked down in spite of their weapons. The workers used the sticks holding the banners as Weapons until every banner was} smashed, and then they fought with | their bare hands, retreating but | | fighting stubbornly every inch of the way. Several cops singled out the city | | organizer of the Minneapolis Unem- | ployed Council, and gove him a ter- | tific beating, although Brown put up &@ courageous battle against o whelming odds. The women work | who were present in large number played a courageous role in the struggle, breaking banners over the | heads of cops, and fighting on until | either arrested or beaten up. | Many young workers were in the | | front ranks of the fighting. A large | mumber of A. F. of L. members not | only participated in the demonstra- | tion and march, but also in the baitle, It took an hour for the police to} finally clear the square. Seven workers were arrested, including 3) women. Many workers were injured, two requiring hospital treatment. The newspapers reported two cops in- jured requiring hospital treatment, but many more were hurt. The following morning, the police | arrested 3 young workers at one of the flop-houses, charging them with participating in the battle. The ar- rested were being held without bail, | and were to be arraigned in court on | Friday afternoon, The International | Labor Defense is busy raising bail and organizing huge protest mass meetings. | The Trotskyites played an espe- cially despicable role in the demon- | stration. While the battle was going on, they were trying to distribute | counter-revolutionary literature, and | when a worker resented it, they at- | tacked him and beat him up. This | so infuriated the workers, that after | the demonstration when one of the} renegades was recognized at a meet- | ing of the. Unemployed Branch, he} was thrown out, and the workers are | thoroughly aroused at their stool- pigeon role. The Communist Party, Unemployed | Council and International Labor De- fense are issuing leaflets to mobilize | @ mass protest campaign, and a| Workers’ Jury will be elected during | the trial of the arrested comrades, to | place the responsibility on the police | and Mayor Anderson ees * DENVER, Col., Feb. 7.—Two thou- sand Mexicans, white and Negro workers marched on the capitol) through slush on Febraury 4th de- manding the enactment of the work- | ers’ unemployment insurance bill. A representative committee of 15) were received by Lieutenant Gover- | nor Johnson in the absence of the | governor who is vacationing. Speaking on the capitol steps pro- ceeded despite the itnereference of | the police du to the militancy of the | workers. 4 Johnson evaded the demands of the workers and another demonstra- tion will be staged on the governor's return, . SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Feb. 7.— | One thousand workers demonstrated | at noon on February 4th, at Third | and Harrison Streets, after marching from Third and Howard where the | police had refused a permit. | ‘The workers marched past soup | kitchens and flop houses, drawing into the march many others. | Speakers from the Unemployed Council, the Communist Party, the Young Communist League and the International Labor Defense called upon the workers to fight for im- mediate relief and unemployment insurance, against the starvation pro- | gram of the Hoover-Wall Street and | Governor Rolph governments. | Resolutions demanding the release | of the forty-four Long Beach ar- rested workers, Tom Mooney, the | Imperial Valley prisoners, the Scotts- | boro boys and the Harlan miners, were passed. In the evening enthusiastic indoor and outdoor meetings were held throughout the city and many work- ers joined’the Unemployed Council. A committee was elected to present demands to the city fathers next Monday. of oe oie eas NEW CASTLE, Pa., Feb. 7.—Two thousand demonstrated on Public Square Feb. 4, National Unemploy- ment Insurance Day, despite prohi- bition of the meeting. The demon- stration was broken up by local and state police who arrested four work- ers beating several others while dis- | persing the crowd. Mayor of city) tried to take over the meeting to} denounce the Unemployed Council but was booed down by the workers. ‘Therefore, he again ordered his cos- | sacks to club and disperse the crowd. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Feb. 7.— Seven hundred demonstrated at the City Hall in blinding snow blizzard. March through main streets and presented demands to the Mayor and members of City Council. City gov- ernment admits bankruptcy of local relief and that their “hands are tied” preventing further relief. Unem~ ployed Council demands taxing of steel trusts and federml pioy~ me A. use of the armory for the February 4th demonstration. In spite of the cold and wet weather, about 1,000 workers attended and enthusiastically endorsed the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill and denounced the imperialist war plans. About $7 worth of literature and Daily Workers were sold and a col- lection of $15.40 was taken, which will permit the opening of a per- manent headquarters soon. One hundred petition sheets for Unemployment Insurance were eager- ly taken by workers and that many more were demanded : Chinese Red Army Five Miles from City of Hankow (CONTINUED FRUM PAGE ONED threatened to join the Chinese work- ers’ Dare to Die organization unless they were led against the Japanese invaders. Other troops sent by Chiz to disarm them joined the fight against the -Japanese. The erialists are pushing their both Chinese soldiers and civilian sufferers are so vehemently anti- foreign at present that the lesson will be salutary, although a portion of this school regrets that it is Japan which is wielding the dis- ciplinary rod.” Expose Chiang Kai-shek, The Brutish imperialist murderers also attempt to condone the p slaughter of tens of thousan Chinese workers in the unforti densely populated Chapei section {pointing to the butcher: | shek and other Chinese tools of im- perialism. Tho di h referring to the fake protests of these traitors. Chinese political and y leaders, as well as civil- ians, who most violently denounce Japan are those who have consis- tently condoned China’s cotinuous Series of civil war or who have at- tempted to excuse the Nanking government’s own ruthless use of | airplanes against thickly populated walled cities in the interior occu- pied by rebellious fore | Why the War on the Chinese | | Masses! | Washington officials admitted on Saturday that the war on the Chi- nese masses is a struggle for markets jand that the Japanese started the | of Chinese | ~~ | masses by the notorious Chiang Kai- | China. war of joint intervention against the | War in @ desperate attempt to solve | Chinese Revolution into the heart of | the terrific economic and financial American, Japanese and/ crisis of Japanese capitalism. The British warships are already operat- | crisis in Japan is part of the world | ing against the advancing Chinese | economic and financial crisis of dying | Red Army. A Washington dispatch | capitalism. es the lie of the imperialists: ‘Military opinion here is that the Japanest plan provides for driving all Chinese troops outside Shanghai and the use of this port The Daily Worker has repeatedly | pointed out to the working class that | world capitalism was attempting to| solve its crisis at the expense of the | blood of the toiling masses. The! ‘er several months ago, In make this ment, Assistant Secre- of War Frederick H. Payne tary | added: “In modern conflict the quantity | of munitions required staggers the | imagination. Plant executives have | co-operated in supplying information and ha hecked the estimates in each ca That these war preparations are aimed not only against the Chinese masses and the Soviet Union but a against the struggles of the starving unemployed millions in this country is clearly indicated by the Assistant Secretary’s statement that: “‘As we consider the possible dif- ficulties that may arise in a world torn by industrial and social dis- order, it is most reassuring to real- ize that we have an organization which reaches every town and community and which would be 2 great mobilizing influence in the event of any trouble—remembering also that the framework of this organization is so adjusted as to absorb the manpower of this na- tion quickly and efficientty tf it ever became necessary to meet a great emergency.” ‘The American workers must answer this open declaration of war prepa- rations against their struggles to live, against their fight for mem- ployment relief and against the Chi- nese masses and the Soviet Union by a determined mobilization of all our forces against the war plots of the imperialist murderers. Workers! Organize United Front Anti-war Committees in your facto- ries, in your unions in all your or- ganizations! Demand hands off Chi- na! Hands off the Soviet Union! De- mand all war funds for the unem- as a basis for operations in the | Washington government, while try- | ployed! Build the struggle for un- event a decision is reached to oc- cupy the Yangtze Valley to Han- kow.” A Shanghai dispatch to the New York Times makes the significant statement that Hankow “may quickly become a point of nearly as great interest to foreign nations as Shang- hai, which has been rocked by shells and bombs almost continuously for | the last eight days. Workers! Rally to Defense of the Chinese Toflers! This is an open and sinister threat against the revolutionary Chinese workers and peasants and their Chinese Soyiet Republic and Red Army. The events in the Far East are daily confirming the warnings of the Communist Party to the work- ing-class that the imperialists are threatening the world proletariat with another world slaughter for the re-division of the world, for the partition of China, for armed intervention against the Soviet Union, where the successful social- ist construction is showing the starving masses of the imperialist countries and the colonies the revolutionary way out of the crisis of dyingcapitalism. The war against the Chinese masses is on. The monstrous provocations against the Soviet Union are daily increasing, The Japanese have seized Harbin and have violated the neutrality of the Chinese Eastern Railway. A Japa- nese army is advancing toward the Siberian border of the Soviet Union. The White Guards are be- ing mobilized in Manchuria, in Po- land, Czechoslovakia and other | countries bordering the Soviet Union, The working class must rally to thedefense of the Soviet Union, to thedefense of the Chinese Revolu- tion, by energetically carrying on the fight against their own im- perialists, the fight against starva- tion and wage-cuts, against lynch- ing and national oppression of the Negro masses, for unemployment relief and social insurance! In preparation for the drive against the Chinese Soviet Republic, the United States and British imperial- ists are removing their missionaries and commercial agents from Nan- king and other cities up the Yangtze | River. Imeprialist press dispatches admit that there is no fighting at Nanking and other Yangtze cities held by the Kuomintang forces, which in those cities continue to maintain a truce with the Japanese while the latter are carrying on their sayege attacks on the Shanghai de- fenders and the unarmed, helpless masses in the city. Mass anti-imperialist demonstra- tions have been prohibited in Nan- king and other cities held by the jing to hide its own bloody role in| | this attempt, now admits that this| is what the Japanese imperialists are | doing. The Washington dispatch states: | “If the views of a majority of the | government officials here are cor- | rect, the economic crisis which now | | confronts Japan was the force which drove her, in desperation, to attempt the invasion of Manchuria. | If economists are right, the eco- nomic strength or weakness of Japan is the factor which will de~ | cide the ultimate success or failure of that military venture. Both agree | that should Japan insur the enmity | | of America and Great Britain she | will have virtually committed sul- cide.” | ‘The last sentence of the above dis- | patch is in the nature of a warning | to the Japanese of what they can ex- | pect if they carry out their present attempt to take more than their| | share of the loot in dividing up| China. Pressure to this effect is be- | ing exerted against the Japanese in| | the stock exchanges of New York | and London, where Japanese bonds | have suffered a catastrophic fall in| the last week. Pressure is also ex- erted through the concentration of | the fleets of t he United States, Eng- land, France and Italy at Shanghai. |"These fleets are there primarily against the Chinese masses but also | to restrain the Japanese from taking the desired loot of these powers. Crisis Grows in Japan. The dispatch admits that the crisis | is deepening at a tremendous pace | in Japan, partly as a result of the} tightening economic boycott by the Chinese masses against Japanese | goods. The silk exchange was forced | to close down for two days last week. Sugar mills at Osaka have shut their | doors. Inflation of the currency is) proceeding rapidly with increasing | misery to the Japanese masses. | Strikes and peasant struggles have | increased during the past year. | In the United States, the specu- | lators are reaping a rich harvest as a result of the war in the Far East. | Prices for wheat and cotton went up | last week. This was balanced, how- | ever, by a drastic decline in several | other raw materials, including rub- ber, cocoa, sugar, silk and hides. The Japanese are continuing their large | purchases of cotton. They are now also buying big quantities of wheat, apparently getting ready for any eventuality, such as an armed clash | with one or more of the other impe- rialist powers in the quarrel, now in a diplomatic stage, over the division of the loot in China. aes In shipping circles, the danger of such an imperialist clash loomed big last week, sending up shipping rates in the Pacific. A San Francisco dis- | patch reports a huge demand for car- | riers. It says: “Many idle bottoms ‘are coming out of mud sloughs to be | new employment insurance! Strike against wage cuts! Call Bakelite Workers to Fight Starvation BOUND BROOK, N. J. The Bakelite Corporation here is taking advantage of the crisis by em- ploying the highest skilled me- chanics at starvation wages. On March ist a ten per cent wage- cut goes into effect for us. The buildings, though modern in appearance, are by no means | healthy for the workers. The chemi ical fumes from defective stills almost gag a men walking through the still department. The dust in the pulverizing departments is so thick at times that one worker can hardly see the other. Breathing this is disgusting, makes @ worker throat city and undermining workers’ health. We workers must organize and demand that an adequate ventilat ing system be installed and the leaky stills repaired. The registers that the company is installing on all rolling machines does away with the necessity of a foreman checking the steady speed of the workers. The register re- cords on a chart the speed of the workers every moment of the day and a glance at the chart tells the story. This will lead to killing speed-up and production pace. These work- ers receive 35c to 45c an hour. The coming ten per cent wage-cut will produce more discontent and dis- gust for the bosses and their rotten system of exploitation. Without or- ganizations, we workers are helpless against these conditions. Workers, cease to be helpless! Let us organize shop committees by joining the Trade Union Unity League! Let us all register for this at 11 Plum St. New Brunswick or at 101 Fayette St., Perth Amboy. We are learning how to make the bosses put our de- mands into effect. Let our demand of no w cut be heard!” Philadelphia EUROPA Market, Above 16th; Rit, Sasa Continuous from 11 a m. Pop. Prices PRESS AND PUBLI¢ DEMANDED A SECOND WEEK OF ROAD TO LIFE —THE PICTURE EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT First Soviet Sound Film ~ English Titles For $50,000 Fighting Fund! FILL OUT AND SEND WITH DONATION NOW! My Answer to the Bosses’ Hunger Program Stree : and Capitalist War! I Contribute $ .... Name NEW YORK CITY