The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 10, 1932, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1932 Page Three —==s EXPOSE SECRET PLANS OF JAPANESE FOR WAR ON CHINESE ~~... MASSES AND SOVIET UNION (CONTINUED FRUM PAGE ONE: 30 issue of the Communist In- ternational. It sets forth the Stress Need of Attack on Soviet Five Year Plan The .document stresses that, the Japanese. plans. must .be, put. into motion before the completion of the Soviet Five Year Plan and before the awakening of the Chinese masses, to which. the. document reefrs as “a tuture danger.” The document states: “A more dangerous factor is the fact that the Chinese people may wake up one fine day . . . When We remember that the Chinese are our only purchasers, we must fear that day when China unites and her industry begins to flourish.” | “We must from now onwards parsue our own military ends and seize the heart of Manchurian and Mongolia by divers ways, in order to be able on the one hand to destroy the military, political and economic development of China and, on the other hand, to prevent the permeation of Russian (Com- manist-Daily -Workers) influence. ‘This is the key of our continental Policy.” Key to Present Events in Far East ‘That this document, presented to the Japanese Emperor in 1927, is still the key to the Japanese policy of plunging the world into another world slaughter, is élearly shown by events today in China, and in the report of G. Bromley. Oxman, president of De Pauw University, on the militarist Propaganda in the Japanese schools. President Oxman states: 1 December a Japanese addressed ‘the heads of geerral schools in the Toklo section. sim!- lar meetings were held through to the Empire. In each of the schools, military training is a part of the curriculum and’ it is due to this heads of educational institutions. “The general said in substance: ‘Our-minds are made up. “We are going. through with “this. |/Man- ehgrian matter..In 1936 the Wash- “The five year plan of Russia will be. completed in the next year of Sits eae ree ee be ® Eventually, we will have 2 wer ith Bebola Heselk at present hag-an- army 6f 1,200,000 men, and Ching has-1,000,000 men, Russia’s policy calls for a union with China.’ . “‘We know our strength at the moment; We know that Russia ts unable to fight now, and China is disorganized. While we are strong, we must drive a wedge to the north, thus separating China and Russia, thereby insuring our position when the struggle comes!’”* ‘ At Shanghai, ‘the Chinese soldiers the Shenton artillery pos! side the International Bettlement but were thrown back. The ‘Chinese forees continued their bombardment of the Japanese positions inside the so-called neutral International Settle- ment. ‘The, American imperialist. press is raising a howl bécause # white was injured by the explosion of a| shell in the: Settlement. The New ‘York Graphic which had no protest against “wholesale slaughter of tens of thousands of Chinese work- ers in the Chapei proletarian section carried a big headline yesterday: “WHITE MATRON WOUNDED BY SHARPNEL IN COLONY AS_ CHINESE RENEW FIRING.” Chiang Tries to Exploit Resistance He Opposed The United States and British im- pefialists continue to permit the Japanese to use the Settlement as a base for military operations against the Chinese. The two divisions of 11,000 troops each, which the Jap- anese are rushing to Shanghai are being landed in the Settlement. Having failed in their attempts to diarm the Chinese soldiers in Shang- hai and to break the mass resistance to the Japanese, the Kuomintang be- trayers of China are now attempting to exploit the heroic resistance of the Shanghai defenders in an effort to recuperate their shattered influence. Wang Ching-wei, Feng Yu-hsiang, Chang Hsiao-lang, Yen Hsishan and other militarists have united with Chiang Kai-shek in a gesture of re- sistance against the Japanese. Wu Peifu has also come out of his en- forced retirement to aid the new move to deceive the Chinese masses and block the rapid spread of Com- munist influence among the masses and petty-bourgeois sections. ‘The hypocrisy of this move is com- pletely exposed by the failure of the fugitive Nanking government to de- clare war against Japan even at this stage of the imperialist invasion of China. Nanking militarists are still maintanng ther truce wth the Jap- anese armed forces in Nanking and other parts of China. This truce enables the Japanese to concentrate most of their warships and troops against the resistance of the masses i nShanghai and against the ad- yancing Chinese Red Army, at latest reports five miles from the great in- dustrial city of Hankow. Soong in Shanghai to Supervise Betrayal In Shanghai itself, the Kuomin- tang officials are reported to be favorably considering the proposals of the Japanese, the United States and British imperialists for the with- drawal of the Chinese forces de- fending the city. Nanking Finance Minister Soong is at Shanghai to direct this betrayal. In deadly fear of the anger of the Chinese workers, he goes about with a huge ‘body-guard. A Shanghai dis- patch reports: “My, Song is living in one of the spacious houses he owns in Shang- hat. Wherever he goes he is pro- tected by a bodyguard with sub- ; machine guns.” U. 8. Rushes More Warships > sstAgainst. Chinese Red: 4rmy 5 The imperialists, alarmed at the victories of the Chinese Red Army, continue to rush theri warships up the Yangtze against the Red Army. A Washington dispatch reports that “two United States destroyers have been ordered from Shanghai up the ‘Yangtze: River.” Several U. S. war- ships are already at Hankow. Two destroyers are at Nanking. Another is on its way to Chingkiang, about 25 miles below Nanking. The re- moval of Americans from the Yang- tze Valley continues, in preparation for the attack on the Chinese Soviet Republic. One Hundred fifty eva- cuated from Nanking yesterday. Several hundred thousand Chinese refugees from Shanghai are strugg!- ing up the Yangtze Valley by foot and boat and any available con- veyance. Most of them are destitute workers blasted out of their homes by the Japanese naval guns and bombing planes. Over 45,000 are flood refugees driven out of Shang~ hai by the Kuomintang officials who fear a mass uprising in the city. ‘Their misery is further increased by a severe blozzard now raging in the Middle Yangtze Valley. The refu- gees are entirely without shelter. Most of them are in rags and have no protection from the intense cold. In addition, food is scarce and many are reported to be starving. The Kuomintang officials are making not the slightest attempt to help them. The flood refugees have been given a Chinese silver dollar to start life over on. ‘The United States yesterday made representations to the Kuomintang officials at Nanking and Canton de- manding that an army be sent to Kiangsi province, where i1 mission- ary agents of American imperialism are cooped up in the city of Kan- chow, which is surrounded by forces of the Chinese Red Army. CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY (CONTINUED FRoM PAGE ONE) ~ CALLS FOR ARMED STRUGGLE stadeuts, to develop the fights and partisan wars of the peasants and to the concession districts of Shanghai,' promote the meetings and demon- and the imperialist warships are) strations of the broad masses. Ing thiasest “The slogan: ‘Arming of the masses,’ must be immediately fur- ther developed into the fighting slo- gan, ‘Demand and seize weapons!’ ‘The masses who are taking part in the fights must, be comprehensively organized, the delegate conference of the anti-imperialist and anti-Kuo- mintang mass organizations must be set up in order to centralize the lead- ership. The fights of the broad masses must be conducted and the tactics of the Party carried out with firm determination yby these legal and semi-legal mass organizations, “We have achieved the victory of the Soviet. Republic in a number of big districts. We shall achieve the Nictory of the Soviets also in a num~ 400 Delegates Demand! Repeal of Section 98 Law in Canada (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the present war. This was greeted with great applause, The latest incomplete reports, com- piled today, show 66,000 workers’ signatures for workers’ rights and the anti-deportation bill, Many A. F. of L. locals, represent- ing a total of 120,000 workers, signed resolutions to repeal section 98. Tim Buck, Communist Party leader, was enthusiastically received when addressing the conference. Resolu- tions demanding the repeal of sec- tion 98, against the present war in China and against deportation was passed, Youth and women resolu- tions were also adopted. The labor faker Heaps, was denounced for ar- | resting Windsor and Winnipeg work- ers, Great support was Pledged to the Canadian Labor Defense League. A statement to Premier Bennett was adopted and a delegation of 20 and 5 Ottawa delegates were elected to visit the Ottawa government on Feb. 22 demanding the repeal of section 98, which is aimed at destroying all militant working-class organizations and the most elementary rights of the workers, The conference decided to issue 4 manifesto to the Canadian working class, This was one of the greatest United Front Conferences ever held in East- ern Canada, Police were present throughout the entire meeting, but were unable in any way to disrupt the proceedings. An attempt to stop the mass meeting scheduled for the evening in one of the theatres by the maneuver of locking the theatre was frustrated when the crowded meeting of the morning held over in another theatre, The conference sent greetings to all Canadian class-war prisoners, also to the International Red Aid and the International Labor Defense, FIGHT WAGE CUT AT PITTSBURGH TERMINAL MINES United Front of Men ~Being Formed PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb) 9—The fight of the Pittsburgh Terminal miners against the 10 per cent wage cut and check-off, for the recogni- tion of Mine Committee, checkweigh- men, delivery of supplies and reem- ployment of blacklisted miners will be continued and intensified by the United Front Rank and File Com- mittee elected by the miners, under the guidance of the National Miners Union. On.February Ist, as the wage cut went into effect, the entire strike- breaking machine of the Pittsburgh ‘Terminal Coal Co. was set in motion. Carloads of Pinchot’s state police, carloads of deputy-sheriffs, and scores of U.M.W.A. agents were busy intimidating miners in order to pre- vent the strike, against wage cuts. ‘These armed strike-breaking forces succeeded only to postpone the strike for the time being. The United Front Rank and File Committee will intensify its work insid> the U. M, W. A. in order to expose the wage cutting and strike breaking roll of the U.M.W.A. and to mobilize all the miners and their families for strug- gle for the demands of the United Front Rank and File Committee, de- mands that were voted upon by the miners at their mass meetings. Great numbers of the miners em- ployed by the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co. are working and at the same time asking for relief of various charity organizations. United Front Rank and File Committees will re- sult in a strike against the 10 per cent wage cut of the Pittsburgh Ter- minal Coal Co, SADLY The Book “Soviet and Peace” Now on Sale At Reduced Price ‘The Soviet proposals for disarm- ament and a record of the consistent activities of the Soviet government for peace is told in the book “Soviet and Peace.” In view of the import- ance of this book at this time when the imperialist powers are driving for another world war and an attack on the Soviet Union. The Interna~ tional Publishers are issuing the book $1.50, to make it more easily avail~ able. The book is obtainable at all workers’ bookshops, containing the | Pp. most important documents of the Soviet government concerning peace and disarmament from the Decree of Peace passed by the. All Russian So- viest on November 8, 1917 to the re- eent proposals for total disarmament | x made by the Soviet delegates at the League of Nations “disarmament” conference. These document trace | A the persistent efforts of the Soviet government for peace in the farcical game of talking peace and arming to [the teeth pursued by the imperialist powers. Henri Barbusse has written an introduction to the book. A new edition of the Memories of /Lenin by N. K. Krupskaya, Lenin’s wife has just been published by the International Publishers, to sell at 75 cents, half the price of the more expensive editions, so as to make it more available to the workers. Spread Daily Worker fund drive into every working class neighborhood to save workers’ mere, Pacifist Phrases--War Deeds savagely pushing the murderous armed intervention against the Chinese Revolution and preparing war against the Soviet Union, the imperialist powers are frantically striving to come to an agreement on the division of the loot in the proceeding partition of China. These efforts are aimed at restraining the Japanese from taking more than their share, and at lessening the growing danger of an armed clash between the robber imperialists over the division of the spoils. The so-called “peace” proposals of the United States and British governments had this as their main aim. These proposals were considered unsatisfactory by the Japanese, who made counter proposals. ‘The Japanese proposals, as reported in yesterday’s Daily Worker, openly called for the seizure by the imperialist Powers of the five prin- cipal Chinese cities as the next step in the looting of China and the war on the revolutionary Chinese masses. The Japanese, however, wanted the looting of Inner China to be considered as separate from the looting of Manchuria. The Japanese having already seized Manchuria with the approval and support of the United States, England and France, now want an equal share in the loot- ing of Inner China. The great outcry and expressions of “moral indig- nation” by the United States imperialists are based solely on opposition to the Japanese bid for the lion’s share in the partition of China. U. 8, Tries Hide Role in China, ‘The Wall Street imperialists are attempting to hide their participa- tion in the partition of China behind a mask of hypocritical indignation against the Japanese proposals. The same gang of imperialist cutthroats who are now engaged in looting agi murdering the toiling masses of Haili, Nicaragua and other Latin American countries are pretending to be “shocked” at the Japanese admissi6ns that the war in China is for the division of China among the imperialists. ‘The workers of the United States must not be deceived by these fake gestures. The Wall Street government lied to the workers about the present terrific crisis of capitalism. oHover, a year and a half ago, said it would be over in 60 days. Many sixty days have passed and the crisis continues to grow worse, with unemployment and mass misery piling up. The Wall Street government continues to lie about the crisis and the suffering of the masses in order to justify its brutal opposition to unemployment re- lief and social insurance at the expense of the bosses and their govern- ment. The Wall Street government continues to sentence millions of workers to starvation. The Wall Street government is now ‘preparing a monstrous world slaughter of the surplus workers for whom dying capitalism has no more use, Meanwhile, at the Geneva “disarmament” conference which is only the diplomatic phase of the imperialist war and war preparations, the imperialists are engaged in spouting pacifist phrases in the attempt to spread illusions among the tolling masses and to deceive the working class as to the real aims of the “disarmament” farce now proceeding in that city. Behind the stage, they are engaged in a struggle for supre- macy, at the same time frantically attempting to subordinate the sharp- ening imperialist antagonisms, within a united front against the Chinese masses, against the Soviet Union, against the revolutionary struggles of the colonial masses throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America. All the proposals offered by ‘the imperialists at the Geneva “dis- armament” conference are proposals for war. The French proposal for an international army is aimed directly against the Soviet. Union and the Chinese Revolution. The British proposals for a ban on the use of sub- marines represents the effort of the declining British Empire to main- tain command of the seas. The United States proposal for a “ban” on gas and the “curbing” of the use of tanks is no less hypocritical a gesture. The imperialists will continue to make war so long as imperialism exists. And they will continue to use and-develop the deadly weapons of slaughter against the workers conscripted into’ their armies. The Soviet. Union has several times offered proposals for complete disarma- ment. These proposals have been steadily turned down. The proposal of the Soviet Union for a fifty per cent reduction in arms was saline rejected by the imperialist, war mongers. ‘Worker: Build an iron united front against imperialist war! Fight against the sinister attempts.of the imperialists to’ solve the crisis at the expense of the blood of the working class, at the expense of its victories in the Soviet Union and in the Chinese Soviet Republic, Demand the withdrawal of American warships and troops from China. Defend the Rail Jobs and Wages Show Decline During Month of November According to report just issued by the Interstate Commerce Commission, there was a decline of 56,192 rail jobs during the month of November as | compared with October, and with a corresponding loss in wages to work- ers amounting to $16,157,859. over, besides less workers being em- ployed, those having jobs worked 127,- 456 less hours than in the preceeding month. Reports for December and January which have appeared in the capitalist | press indicate worsening of conditions for rail workers, And now with the recent wage cut of ten per cent affecting all rail work- ers, the bosses have shown that for them nothing is too sacred for profits. Not even the “aristocracy of labor.” Scottsboro Mother Tells of Bitter Struggle to Exist (CONTINUED FROM PAGE little. The doctor says there's a growth over his eyes, but we ain't never had money enough to care for him right. Robbed by White and Black Bosses “He used to\carry meals for the men that work in the foundry. Some- times he'd make a dollar a week. Then, when the foundry kind of shut down, Roy picked up old junk, and paper, and rags and iron, and tried to sell them to the junk man. He made pretty good at that. Roy wasn’t no slacker, no sir! He used to make three and maybe four dollars @ week sometimes. “After a while, Roy went to work with Andy on the dump pile. You know, picking up things out of the city dump. A black man run the dump, but he wasn’t no better boss than the white folks. He wouldn't pay the boys regular, so they quit. I reckon he still owes Roy and Andy three or four dollars. “Andy, he tried awful hard, but jobs was hard to get. Andy run a truck for a produce house down- town, and he was doing well enough, though they always give him the longest runs and paid less than the white truckers. When the old man died, and a young boss came in, he didn’t like ‘niggers.’ He said he didn’t want no ‘niggers’ working for him. Times was getting hard, and they was laying off the colored folks first anyhow. So they fired Andy. t “My, times was awful hard for us. No jobs for neither of the boys; and you couldn't get nothing for junk any more either. UNE) Chinese masses! Defend the Soviet Union! DISTRICTS COMING IN LINE TOO SLOWLY TO SAVE “DAILY WORKER’; RUSH FUNDS IMMEDIATELY Slowly some of .the districts are) L. Schwartz, N.Y.C, -, 5.00 faking up to the danger facing the | Ital.- Sec. F. Downtown Br, 2.50 Daily Worker, Slowly, but far too} R. Jacobovich, N.Y.C. 25 erlfed some money has begun com- | Friend, Patterson, N. 1.00 ing in. But the New York district is | K. Kuntz, Bronx . 10.00 suit sending in the main part of the | Goodman, N. Y. C. 50 money. Without the New York dis-| A. Krakowsky, Bronx +25 trict there would have been no Daily | Tave, Unit 22, Section 5 225 Worker by now. But even this dis-| Frank Board, Camp Nitgedaiget 1.00 trict is lagging behind so that at|I. Cohen, Camp Nitgedaiget. 0 the present rate the Daily Worker may be out down to one page next week. New York’s contribution up to yesterday was $2,349, and compared to that Detroit's contribution to §257 and Philadelphia's contribution of $246 look rather small. But small as they are, Cleveland is even lower with $140 up to yesterday and Chi- cago even lower than that with $89. DISTRICT 3 Previously reported $182.10 Cutting Room, Philadelphia Shop 6.0 00 District 3—per M. Zald M, Snyder, Atlantic City ‘W. Kline, Reading, Pa.: J. Stampalin, Philadelphia. aS: And these are the districts on which DISTRICT 4 we have relied as our main support. | Previously ts BS see jt Other districts comé trailing even|N. Tisby, Buffalo, 1.01 further behind, This condition can’t last much $16.00 logner. It won’t last much longer. DISTRICT 5. Either the districts wake up and| Previously reported ...... $10.00 actively set the machingry in motion | J. Mayti, Morgantown, W, V: 5.00 to get the message of the ‘Daily | F. Obrekes-list, Kulpmont, Pa.. 4.55 Worker emergency drive to the|F. Norwichi, Natrola, Pa. 50 workers or the Daily Workes goes| J. Kendon, Hermine, Pa. x under, first by having its space cut to one page a day and then by com- plete annihilation. DISTRICT 6 Only immediate actio ncan save the Daily Worker. eGt the units, the sections, the mass organizations in your district into revolutionary competition. Set quot: Get the Previously reported .. . T. Mitsos—List, Cleveland oe Slovak Branch 37, Cleveland. Unit 8-30, Cleveland. §. Hartley, Cleveland Daily Worker donatio nbooks into|§. Krauthammer, Cleve! the hands of all class conscious | J. Fromholz, Cleveland workers. Rush funds at once, every | H. Brown, Cleveland day from everywhere, Save the|Jim George, Cleveland. Daily Worker for leadership in the | Col, Unit Meetings—Woile, Pa. increasing struggle against the| Chas. Moschill, Cincinnati. bosses’ wage cuts and war plots, J. Kowalazak, Steubenville, 8. ELD. Branch, Bellaire, Ohio. District Smith, ‘Ashtabula, Ohio. 1:00 $140.34 Unemployed ‘Coun. 11, Cleveland DISTRICT 7 Frevienaly reported . Det: eel +. Gortectt n List, Beye District Oftice nin, Detroit. Bonoiokeldl Family, Detroit. FS wonamomcnst DISTRICT DISTRICT 8 Prviously repoted Previously reported W. Keimen, Bran: So. Slav Fractions. Chicag: J. Gurlet, New Bedford, Mass Hamersmark, Chicago P. A. Bailey, Watertown, Mass. 3,00| J. Kozlowski, Hammond, Ind. 5 A. Fredrichson, Tenants Har- C. Jacobson, Spring Grove, Ul. 2.00 bor, ine... 6.65 |S. Parsky, Chicago . 5 00 Ma‘ 5 Keinonen, Waldo Brandon, I.W.O, Branch 664, Chic Ben Rond,. Chicago. Mrs, Holmuist, Chicag TRICT 2 Previously coTeResed Geo. Senet 2 Previously reported M. Bernstein, New Rochelle. A. Ukrainian Baty Be “0 DISTRICT 11 Johnson, 4 L. Kurske, Grenville, S.D.......% .60 A. Hedgtrand, x pla dir Licker, B, N. $.50 Mendelsohn, 50 DISTRICT 12 ec. 15, Un 08 | Previously reported 5 Section 1, Unit 200 W, Lint, Seatt! Bi Brownsville T.U. 50 Portland Office, P 1.50 Section 15, Unit 9 + 2601/8, Stamtakackys, Coquille, Ore. 5.00 cardo, Long Island + 00 Shule No. 4, N.Y. aan | $27.50 Section 1, Unit 2-B © 150 DISTRICT 13 Section 2 Unit 13 2.00 | Previously_reported ..,. Section 7, 5.601 R. Burns’ Wilson, B Mapleton, Bensonhurst Work- ers Club » (4.15]Sam_ Steel, Los Angele Section 6 26.85 |W. Erdang, Los Angele Section 33.35 Section 25 Section 2 24.40 DISTRICT 15 Seetion 10 8.00 | Previously reported Section 10—Book | Collection 1.00) 1, Parker, Waiefield, Mas: Martin Muller, N.Y. 2.001 G! Leidlorff, Providence . Section 8, Unit 75] D. Schwartz, Southbury, Conn. Section 1, Unit Henry Rapp, N. John Gutierre: Carl Paulson, NY.! M. Felan, Schule 2, NYC. DISTRICT 19 Previously reported .......... Camille Bruncel, Dacono, Colo pore zo2Sneo- 33335 Chas, Sere! at 36 MISCELLANEOUS 00] Group ef Workers on board 00] Roosevelt to Uy $90] Metropole. Mos “Then, one day Andy said he was going down to Memphis, ‘Folks say T.can get.a job loading boats in Memphis, now,’ he said. ‘I’m going down and send you back some money for to live on.’ And Roy, of course, he wanted to go along. Them boys was always together, you never could separate them nohow. Roy said he’d go to the hospital and get his eyes fixed in Memphis. So I told them where they'd find their auntie in Memphis and sent them along. “That was the last time I saw them free. “Next morning my neighbor woman said. ‘Ada, where's your boys’ I said: ‘They left town, looking for a job in Memphis.’ And she answered: “They aint in Memphis, Ada, Look-a here.’ And she showed me the paper saying my boys was arrested and accused of ) | trying to hurt some white girls that was riding on a train in overalls. “My boys would never do nothing like that. Everybody knows my boys would never do nothing like that.” Mother Learns Nature of Lynch ‘Terror Quickly Mrs. Wright learned that Negro boys need not do anything like that to bring a mob howling on their heels, to have a judge stand up in a Southern court and sentence them one by one to death! “Keep the nigger in his place! If you let him up, if you don’t terrorize and starve him, he will want more money, more power, a decent living. If he wants more, the white worker will want more. If you keep the Negro down, you keep the poor white down. Unite them and they are stronger than us; the rulers of the South. Turn them in hate upon each 4 other and we have them both at our mercy.” So say the landowners, the store owners, the factory owners of Am- erica. 14-Year Roy “a Game Kid” In their cells in Alabama, in her miserable little hovel in Chattanooga, Roy, Anda and Ada Wright have learned this. Now they have turned to the I. L. D. and the workers, black and white, in America to save them. “That boy Roy,” says George W. Chamlee, Chattanooga attorney for the I. L. D., “is the gamest little kid I ever saw. He said to me in jail: “I'm innocent and I’m counting on the workers to set me free. That rich Ruby Bates told the white folks when we got off the train that we never touched her. Twice one of the Stree More- | Gibbons’ Nine NEW YORK.—The most | tion. American imperialism against Soviet. Union—the rushing of troops, naval vessels, munitions and heavy guns to the far east anti-Soviet war base—Gibbons in a short speech trotted out before the conference, amid wild shouts of joy from the capitalist press, nine points, every one of which is directly contraposed Wall Street government. Gibson said in point 1: “The Amer- ican government advocates consider- ation of the draft convention as con- taining the outlines for a convenient | its entire willingn’ we all seek.” Frederick H. Payne, assi retary of War, pointed out end sought by U. 8, imperialis | a few days ago when he said that the War Department had “collected and classified data on 12,000 industrial plants thta could be used to make munitions in an emergency.” Point 2 suggests prolonging the ex- isting naval agreements. A worker, however, from Washington, D. C. points out in a letter to the Daily Worker how these naval agreements are circumvented. The letter states: “From authorative sources I learn that all ship owners have been told to stand by and all naval leaves can- celled.” Mr. Gibson, in face of these fev- erish naval preparations, sypocriti- cally suggests in poin 3 a further re- duction in naval armaments, and in point 4 “the total abolition of sub- marines"! Yet the submarine fiotil- las in the United States’ Navy are being built up to unprecedented strength. Point 5 calls for “effective meas- ures to protect civilian pouplations against aerial bombing,” while in Philadelphia the arsenals are work- ing at full speed manufacturing ex- Plosives for aerial bombs. The abolition of letel gases, which gestures made thus far at the Geneva by the war mongers of bloody imperialism was the speech made | yesterday by Hugh S. Gibson, leader of the American delega- In a strenuous effort to hide the obvious war plans of theo | to the real plans and actions of the | Point Speech A Prelude to War on USSR brazen of all the hypocritical “disarmament” farce contradiction to the policy of the U. S, government, which is at present concentrating special efforts on its chemical warfare units. An authen- ie report has been received by the Daily Worker that the Manhattan | Raybeston Rubber Co. in New Jer- sey has just completed a government order for 17,000 gas masks. Although it is common knowledge that masses of heavy offensive guns, tani c. have been rushed t6 the far ern war zone, Mr. Gibbson babbles in his nine points about basis for discussion, while expressing | America standing for special restric- ss to give full con- | tions on armaments of this character. sideration to any supplementary pro- | | posals calculated to advance the end| télism had thrown the imperialist | world into a state of turmoll, that | the big owners were all suffering Admitting that the crisis of capi- from unsettled budgets and govern- mental instability, but failing to men- tion that the Soviet Union had no budgetary and economic crisis, Gib- son closed his speech by calling for “friendly good will” and “coopera> tion” among the imperialist powers. Not one word can be found in the speech of the American delegate about the war in China, no proposals to withdraw the American gunboats | from the Yangste where U. 8. Mar- ines and sailors are manuevering against the advancing Chinese Red Army, no protests about the seizure of Harbin by the Japanese troops, only hypocritical phrase mongering about disarmament to cover up American imperialism'’s agreement with Japan on the invasion of Man- churia and to gloss over the war pre- parations against the U. 8, S. R. Mr. Gibson's speech is @ pink fairy tale, the purpose of which is to Yuli the minds of the American masses to sleep in face of actual war; i is an integral part of the U. 8. war and armament plan devised as a buffer against the truth. ‘The truth ts that the most gigantic war preparations in the history of the world are being made right under the nose of the “disarmament” conference, which is merely a diplomatic phase of these is suggested in point 6, is a directpreparations. PARTY MEMBER IN AKRON ON TRIAL FOR CHAUVINISM Section Organizer of I.L.D. To Be Tried In Zigler Hall On Feb. 16 AKRON, Ohio—On Friday, Feb. 12, a member of the Communist Party in Akron will go on trial before a workers’ jury under charges of white chauvinism. ‘This comrade held a leading position as section organizer of the International Labor Defense and has made statements before Party and non-Party members of such character as to prove himself an outright White Chauvinist. He has been corrected several times and admitted his mistakes promisin gto correct himself, but still repeats the same errors, maintaining that the Party and Workers Center can get along better without the Negroes. The section buro with a district deputies said. ‘All right, there, nigger kid. You run along.’ But twice they held me back; and then the next day that white girl changed her mind and said we tried to hurt her. But I'm innocent and I know the I. L. D. will set me free.’” (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED mentary rights of the workers. The committee is composed of the following mh ‘known writers and liberals: Liston Oak, representative for the National Committee; Charles and Adelaide Walker, who were both in- dicted for criminal syndicalism when they invaded the Harlan terror zone with Theodore Dreiser last fall; Waldo Frank, well-known critic; Quincy Howe, editor of the Living Age; Malcolm Cowley, editor of the New Republic; Harold Holmes Owen, architect from New Hampshire; John Henry Hammond, Jr., journalist; Mary Heaton Vorse, labor journalist and novelist; Dr. Elsie Reid Mitchell, New York physician, peal Edmund For aD Fighting Fund! , FILL OUT AND SEND WITH DONATION NOW! My Answer to the Bosses’ Hunger Program and Capitalist War! ! Contribute # .... Name Tepresentative decided to hold a public trial exposing this comrade The trial is being prepared under the direction of the district and section committees. It is under the aus- Pices of the Communist Party and LL. D. The trial is getting wide pubilicity. Ten thousand leaflets being made up for distribution, all organizations being invited to at- tend and the Party, Unemployed Council, Young Communist League, Friends of the Soviet Union, Pioneers, League of tSruggle fon Negro Rights are being mobilized for the meeting. A special appeal is to be made to Negro workers and letters of invi- tation are being sent to the Cleve- Jand, Canton and Youngstown sec- tions to attend. In Akron where the rubber barons, K. K. K. and bosses try to divide the Negro workers, segregate them, terrorize them, etc. the Party has led a continued fight to mobilize and win the Negro masses for struggle against these conditions. t has found it necessary to fight the White Chauvinism in {ts ranks continually. The time has come when the Party must make a ruthless fight and ex- pose its members, if necessary expel! those who show any signs of White Chauvinism. Only this way can we Prove to the Negro masses that we mean what we say. This trial is being held at the Zigler Hall, corner E. Voris and Miami Sts., at 8 p. m Friday, Feb. 12. Everybody out to the trial. Red Builders, help get subscriptions. Sheriff Blair Threatens Jailing of Writers Bringing Strike Aid be Wilson, critic. = Corliss Lamont, fn- structor at Columbia, may join the delegation by airplane, accompanied by cameramen from the Workers’ Film and Photo League, a depart- ment of the Workers’ International Relief. Backing these delegates are Jo- sephine Herbst, novelist; Sherwood Anderson; Niles Spencer, artist; Dr. Hans Zinssen, Harvard physician, former president of the American Medical Association; Lewis Mumford, critic; Stuart Chase, economist; Evex lyn. Dewey, daughter of the philo-~ sopher John Dewey and co-author with him on educational works; Floyd Dell, novelist; Sidney Howard, celebrated playwright, and Robert Littell, dramatic critic.