The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 22, 1932, Page 3

‘ * 1932 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY, 22, DRIVE DROPS WHILE DANGER OF DAILY WORKER SUSPENSION GROWS; RUSH FUNDS AT ONCE YOUTH COLUMN VESA A. C. RUNS WORKERS WRESTLING MEET Leading Cash Sent Leading in Quote Paretchanitn, Boston .00 7 Dintelee 2 $7330 District 17 ASS" Cambridge Ohi Cambridge 10.00 MARCH 6TH str hee ee sky, Chelsea —The Vesa etic 5 . KI 10 District i a & see ae #/Olub, which is affiliated with the Distrie' . Margin, Chelsea § abor Sports Union of America, will istrict 19 13.8 E. Glerman, Chelss 25 ‘ Dietriet 6 ps Section 8 Unit fi Worcester 2 00 | conduct a workers’ wrestling tour- District 15 10. 160) Btamford _____. rs 5 Din fo “a8 Boot St Begone — enor fart sl se ge gaan Disttict 5 , . ' “4 District 120 8.5 ‘The-entry is already a large one District 8ST and all reports indicate that this eee we 8 DISTRICT 2 tournament is attracting the great- Distrlet 1043 ee eee 9 {est attention that has ever been District 11.08 ph Gvaney rm too | given a workers’ sports everit in this Sam Zallin, 5.00} city. It is anticipated that arond 50 M. Padella 8 | i te mekenuitiag 0 | Worker grapplers will participate, re- ‘Total Percent of Quote: 18.1 Mare Walbrin ———-, 9 | presenting of about 15 different la- ip pcan ener ERIE To Feb. Received Totdl to % of Sorgen 3.004 bor organizations. Dist. Quote 18 Peb. 19 Feb. 19 Quota Lentagt a ‘This tournament, like all the Labor 3 it ip $9 309 Jack. Rosen —— Sports Union meets, is open to every i 1B 18 Morris, Betitelder — worker athlete. If the readers of this 5S 1380 $17 P. Rotnenbs | Paper or their friends are willing to : red is Poggi compete in this coming mert, they & 6800 27 Philip Wasserman are requested to communicate with 4 = ie 7 ¢ Franssn = the Vesa A. C,, 15 W. 126th St., N.Y. i he Heraklion Wervers Ghus 625 | or the Eastern district of the LSU, 16 a a a5 perce, aes tee Doaa eer | Aveniie 1.00, W. 2ist Street, N.Y.C., and recéive b 15.9 ar forkers. ee 2.25 is see lige Macine Worktrs Ind. Union their entry blanks. Entries close 16 150 9.6 The Group — | March 2nd, i 8 Se Sean anno At a time when the bosses’ sport » 400 13.8 Wont fone ae a movement is making special efforts —— vomet younc! lo. — $370.30 605.30 8978.00 Goldenbete? — — 11.15 | Of misleading young workers by its Total percent of Quota ____18,1 Book: Olympic propaganda, we call upon ie See ee ae 2 09 |every class conscious proletarian 7663.91 9074.80 ° coe City Committee __ __ ___14.57| youth to support the workers’ sport a ee movement in this country. DISTRICT 1 © Section 4 Previously reported $207.10 Dnit 1 ne Unit & — s, CLEVELAND YOUTH~ TO 2, Metnigx, Portiana 1.00 Unit 9-11-18 Wendell Méinick, Maine, 80 Unit 13 30| DEMAND RELIEF FROM ick, ‘Portian d Tb, Boston Massecnusette bates 6 ir weherso ER NEW CLEVELAND . L, Boston 5.00 Section 4 _ es rscrerera 56 MAYOR <a 3 CLEVELAND, Ohio.—Young work- Nusbaum -50 4 Arend — ———_— 3 Sect. 7 Unit 1 ers, women and children will present Prermad rd wit their demands for immediate relief, Sea eee i nit 7 04 E peneb den ars | Unie 10 1.70 feeding stations and free food for Larkin, pay 30 zante 00 Becta ob Fe area si children, to the newly elected mayor inerdén ___ .25 Coll. by H. New Jersey of Cleveland, in a poster parade on 3, Gardner, Passaic, N. J. 8.75 Unit 12 Cleveland 1.25 | Saturday, March 5, at 2 p. m. They = = aoe Gen, Senlelnkoter Gieveiana 1.09 will come to demand that he catry : sel levelans 4.75 | out some of his promises of “helping - = J. Vauiliades, Cleveland 85 8722.39 on 3h Geveland on the needy” if elected. These pro- SS im. eveland — ——_ __ ___1.00 | mises fof relief have been the main bt Steve Medewsky Cleveland 1.00 Previoute ype sorice ©: Novak, Cleveland 09 | Campaign slogans of both Morgan, Pennsylvania , a faction, Cleveland 4% | Republican candidate; and Miller, re- J. Duglos, Philadeiphia ite G. Seminuk, Cleveland 2.00 | Presenting the Democrats. israel Feldman, hladepsia Maryland Section 7 Sane District H. Bret, Washington a DISTRICT ¢ Previously reported _____$46.: Unit 1 Buffalo dats arit4 W. Senkin Syracuse DISTRICT 5 eviol reported ____ Bill unit Pittsburg pia ae) 11.55 DISTRICT 6 Previously reported eported ——___$461.01 Séction 2 Boston — _ 10.00 Martin’ Hughes . — 1.00 BROW ae Sas Unit 17, Cleveland 2.00 Young workers will present de- Geo. Ditirch Cleveland 50 Unit 2 Cleveland 5.00|tmands here that they get relief inf j-10, Cleveland 2.55 liscrimin- Soltzberg,’ Cleveland ie eee gan > M _Stebik, Cleveland ‘a5 | tion on account of youth, and also on, Cleveland 2 5 Ca eee 2 demands for weekly cash relief, with I. Reaver, Dayton 159 |@emands for unemployment insur- H. W. Kepler, Dayton — 50 ance at bosses’ expense. They will D Se ee demand together with the working Bookshop, ‘Toledo 2.00 women and children that children 4658 | of unemployed workers get free milk, 7.57 | fi Staweuie.4 507.5) Tee a ee free school supplies Previousl; ted $476. ved Michigan $476.18) Bach group taking part in the par- pees RS oad 3:53 | ade will make posters exposing the List Detroit _! conditions under which they live and exposing the bosses who force them to live under such conditions. Prizes for the best poster will be awarded. “The parade will start at 2 P. M, D. Weksier _ 19 ome Logas — ie 3. Epstein — 5. oa ene EH from three sections of the city: E. r er ae Kasteris — —___ “ Baa = ed John Walenchuk —1\00 | 55th Street and St. Clair, E. 38th St. FH Me ee ip ee Be ——— 0] and Scovill, and W. 25th Street and $00 Chasen — —— ‘yp Peter Rathicin $0 | Lorain Ave. anian Wrs. Club & Milter 2. go Cybulaki 5 Attais Feb. 16 1.38 Ph! Singer — 125 Baul Satta ¥. Odjara 1.00 M. Newman 25 Nelawestag sia = 1.00 i oe +25 Joe Cichanowski —. — 25 Newark eo an ree fa 25° W. Gostraiki __ 125 | Pretheit Gonnse Fereign _____ 0.26 % ‘aie eats he i gohn Karaczkowski — Schule No, —— 2.25 jon Wolass —— Lb ory Tomaszewski _ ‘siaten alana pansy ea ay Klemman — ——_ .50 4 Berent _ .10 | Finish Women Club __ 5.00 leas 4 Louls Pain —- Hs fg parry 10 Pag Ce in B. & B. Restaurant 8.75 oi SS es: Comrade oy Hart 60 & wrt — —— ‘© E. Goldstein — 60 & Biter 50 | Hal_Jorling 1.50 Fa 90 ME a aacstcaee - POR gh 200 Stanley Oleinick 2.00 — —-__— 50 Blumer _ 25° Ukrainian Br. 1 Dp — 4.00 3 Berman’ — “80 Ida Menicic — 3 Hamtramck, Mich. —5,00| Cecilia Koziskt 1.00 tule balay et) es Wagner — ——- 25 unit C-8 profit House N. Hyman __ 1.00 dees eaaie. ad —_— Blinder —_ —_ Party — Henry Kroner AB (panels yo Fe bites = —_— D Unit B-2 “profit “House am alusageld Ma Slit ee ee ie ae = ae see Blams — 10 N. Schermer _. 2.00 DISTRICT 8 ' 7 4,000 Previously reported $78.50 8 “4.500 tao ge ead ae Min ~ 2 a, — Units of ©. P., Indiana Harbor —— 5.00 10 "gun eb 8% Sen eq TERY ss ll 150 — W. New York rient, Steiger ——-—_____ 2.00 12, 1,509 13.50 Smith . ig 1.00 Coop Society. Gary ada 2.000 12.50 Andrew A. Antich Asbury P'k Gol.) 15.00 x 00 wa : se , West Alls 1.00 16 160 00 6.40 A Priend - hdd =) 10 iF app, Milwaukee 1.00 17 180 85.50 3528.58 Sait’ 6 Milwaukee 450 18 2008.00 Total $528.56 —— 19 400 36.50 13.00 30.05 fee ht BY tse Grand_ total $5,426.00 ed 7554.71 615.67 6370.30 pisrarce 6 $308.55 a Total per cent of Quota _ DISTRICT 3 Previously eperted sisere Mie: ———-——90.20 99.20 Previously reported ee Cart Gerace, eeaenelt sa 7653.91 8460.50 Phillisburg é trotkece a bate 5 500 DISTRICT 1 Le REA Da Tame oop, Bul = 5.0 yi . mapa Oe Massachusetts Collection by Shapiro _"_ ee 43,25 Berkly Unit, Betily 225 Previously reported $159.10 Pennsylvania MiniGoote Scandintatn Workers Club, Boston _. 50.00 Philadelphia Cook Coop. Assn, Cook Finnish Wotkers Club, Fitchburg —. 5.00 | Métal Workers Ind. on Disrmicr 10 a io ies willam ‘ikem wichita Fails ——— $15.55 17.85 52 “a7 87 993.02 jously reporte 50 Distaicr 8 ee ly eperted ter a ea | 38 ‘Warn Ss |S O8 Rs ne, Portland DISTRICT 18 California DISTRICT 15 ipoabestient oO Ww. canes, Bhtpepere John Weaver eae DISTRICT 2 ree ee City L. B. Weeker Total Section 1 Unit $471.66 Grand total pisrkicr 4 Previously reported __ ——ie = $39.00 ‘Syra 00 | J. Doroft (List) ___ 6.25 Roel John Peterson 1.00 Tv $7.25 Grand total —.. $571.66 DISTRICT 5 Previously reported — — $68.95 nsylvania <n Victor Poverk (Miners al cee «11,00 Section 6 Unit 12 ; saethas : Stetion 7 Unit 5 a |S ne $1.40 Totes cn Grand total sho a Seavioug ines $14.40 Section 8 DISTRICT 6 Dis er FERED Bectoln 10 Previously reported aa $896.48 Previously. t unit FN AY Sine del : G. Whitmer, Eustis _. ore een Ha, ;Back coe Taner Ot $05.50 Forwarded ..... 8.50 DinEGr is eee, hike u 1.008 Previously reported ______ $8.00 Gwent ie wy Or. Kahle, Billings “=I 10100 Sim Holama 1 4 ,M, Martin, § arty Sawada, Mad Winish Had. Chih. son Previously reported $40.50 Winish Workers Chib 5.00 Rock Springs Rarty unit — ee HibsRtG S: (Géniidaad) Unit No, 16.. 2.00 paced c zr, PToPRT reed "hort eee gagoraa| M. Shuster 3 18.50 Repelved Total jew York Cit; Columbus, Dist. Quota Pe 8 ota orm 389.17 | Wolt Feinstein... Tint peee Ub ty tho rm Mt Crt) pasaeestey ri Vie ie #3 gute a, “90.18 Total see... $08.86 t 1B las i Fr = puatifendtetet Stora 305.43 ats 461.01 3 2.50 Babine FOpOrteds seven ene S47476 Lenin and the International Trade Union Movement (PART 11, Conclusion) Dealing with the syndicalist stand of Shlyapnikov and others Lenin said: “Communism says: the Com- munist Party, the vanguard of the working class, leads the masses of non-party workers, educating, pre- paring, training these massés (the ‘school’ for communism), at first of workers, and then of peasants, in or- der that they be able to arrive, and they have arrived, at concentrating in their hands the administration of the whole of national economy. Syn- dicalism puts into the hands of the masses of non-party workers, split according to industries, the adminis- ,jtration of the various industries... thereby destroying the need for the Party, without carrying on any pro- longed work, neither for the educa- tion of the masses, nor to concentrate actually in their hands the adminis-- tration of the whole of national econ- omy.” (Works, Vol. XXVI, p. 92.) By basing themselves on the Marx- ist-Leninist theories, on the Leninist teachings about the Proletarian Dic- tatorship arid the trade union move- ment, the Soviet trade unions, under the leadership of the Party have also ‘overcome the ‘trade-unionistic’ devia~ tion, which was headed by Comrade Tomsky. This deviation was an ex- pression of right wing opportunisin. In the light of an analysis of the so- cial roots and the political meaning of right and “left” opportunism, the analysis made by Comrade Stalin at the Sixteenth Party Congress, we see: while the Trotskyites and syndi- calists strove to jump over the NEP (the Trotskyites now have no time for these jumps, they support Brun- ing together with the social-fascists), did not believe in the possibility of drawing the basic masses of the peas- antry into socialist construction, and prophesied the downfall of the Prole- tarian Dictatorship without the state assistance of the West European working class, the trade unionist-devi- ationists, like all right-wing opportu- nists, interpreted the NEP extendedly, and proposed to put off the developed offensive of socialism and the building of the foundation of socialist economy to the indefinite future, advocating the growth of the kulaks into social- ism. Both the rights and the “lefts” equally do not believe in the forces of the revolutionary working class. Their practice is a logical conclusion of their “theories.” _ In 1920, dealing with the tasks of the Communist Parties in capitalist countries, Lenin elaborated the ques- tion of activities by revolutionaries in the reactionary trade unions (see “Infantile Disease”). He said that “nowhere in the world did the work- ing class develop, or could it develop, i Michingan A. Young..... ae ee Total ..... $1.50 Grand total ..$476.16 DISTRICT 8 Previously reported 0 Section 2. Section 6. Dr. Miller. Unit 602.. Bremen ¢ hogsoas> & 200 0 45 0 5.00 o) 0 5 Total ........ $22.70 Grand total ..$278.50 DISTRICT 9 Previously renorted $118.81, ‘Minnea) A. 3. Arhess —. 1.00 Louise B. Arness 1.00 Duluth J. Cogan ... 1.45 Gnits No. 2 and L. Grosby 3.70 Tripoli, Wis. Triena Nurmi —. 6.20 Gl Drobnich __.. 1.00 a. Coshion — 6.00 Total $20.95 Grand total $139.16 DISTRICT 10 Previously bcc . $15.55 DIST! Previously reported 50 DISTRICT 12 $102.38 Previously report Port! P. J. Warne — Total $16.00 Gtand total — $118.38 DISTRICT 13 Previously reported _ $200.53 Los Angeles, Cal. Frank Browet iwc ae 1.00 Mr. Morris 1.00 Miho Reich pao (180 Molly Subler 5.00 Schaeffer —__ 4.00 Fotal ( Wink total ais DISTRIC 15 Previously lay cit bhava Conn, Percy usiny Total Grand total DISTRICT 16 Previously reported - ‘Total te daca Ww Previously ré <a 986.60 ooprerntet in Previously reported sitisniics’ 98,00) DISTRICT 19 Previously teported Canon City, © R. Bartiett — n Denv Pete Stenmos — 1.00 8. Kameskov 1.00 B. Lang — 1.00 ‘Total $49.50 Grand tote cow 38,870.90 othae than through the trade unions, through their inter-action with the working class party.” The refusal of the “lefts” to work in the reactionary reformist unions in the epoch of the Proletarian Revolu- tion implied and implies the refusal to fight to win the masses from the influence of the social-fascists, the re- pudiation of the struggle for the unit- ed front from below. “Not to work inside the reactionary unions means leaving the insufficiently developed or backward working masses under the influence of reactionary leaders or workers turned bourgeois.” (“In- fantile Disease”) And this means gtist to the social-fascist mill, to re- tard the process of the social-demo- cratic and nonparty workéfs going over to the red trade unions. All this may result in weakening the forces of the revolutionary working class in face of the events looming ahead, may make more difficult the revolu- tionary way out of the crisis which has stricken all capitalist countries, may facilitate the capitalist way out of the crisis. Revolutions “grow when tens of millions of people come to the conclusion that it is no longer pos- sible to continue living thus,” said Lenin in 1918. But in order that the revolution triumph it is necessary to organize these tens of millions and prepare them for the struggles, And for this purpose they must be freed from the influence of the social-fascists, from the influencé of the reformist trade union leaders. Lenin spoke about all this hotly and convincingly in his pamphlet, “The Infantile Disease of Leftism.” Only by mastering the Leninist trade union theory, the Len- inist tactic in the economic struggle, and his directions on work inside the | reactionary trade unions, his art in drawing the million-strong masses under the banners of Bolshevism, only in this manner is it possible to ensure the defeat of social-fascism. In order to win the working masses more speedily from the social-fascist influence we must go where the working masses are to be found—into the factories. We must set up our organizations, our leaning points, here, in the factories. We must here organize the struggle for the day-to- day needs of the workers, lead this struggle. In this way it will be pos- sible to win authority among the working masses and drive the social- fascists out of the leading positions in the trade unions. Unless work is carried on in the factories, unless we lead the struggle for the day-to-day needs, for the “petty” economic de- mands of the workers, the revolu- tionaries never win the confi- dence of those masses who still be- lieve the reformist trade union lead- ers. And without this confidence it will be impossible to draw these masses into the united front with the revolutionary workers and to draw them into the struggle for the Proletarian Dictatorship, for the abolition of the system of exploita- tion. The struggle for the overthrow of capitalist society by no means ex- cludes, on the contrary, presupposes the struggle for the day-to-day needs of the workers. Only by not refusing to ofganize this struggle, and to lead it, is it possible to prepare the work- ers for the struggle for power, to lead them to storm capitalism. And then, “No force in the world can prevent the downfall of capitalism and the victory of the working class over the bourgeoisie.” (Lenin, “Greetings to the International Congress of Labor Unions,” July, 1921). In the light of Lenin’s teachings on the trade unions the mistaken- ness, incorrectness of characterizing the reformist unions as a “school for Communism” becomes clear. This formula is nothing but an expression of right wing opportunism. The adoption of such a formula would imply th? recognition of une reformist. unions as reyolutionary organizations. Much, ve:y much, workers, has yet to be done by the supporters of the RILU to drive the social-fascist lead- ership out of these unions and lead the masses that are united in them. A second incorrect formula whi-*> *-s been expressed characterizes the re- formist trade unions as a “school for capitalism.” Actually, if this for- mula were adopted, it cou!d serve to demobilize the supporters of the RILU, to weaken their work to win the masses organized in the trade unions, would lead to a repudiation of the struggle for the united front from below. While the formula “re- formist unions are a school for Com- munism” plays into the hands of the right wing opportunists, who never refused the united front with tre re- formist trade union leaders, and for- got about the united front from be- low, the formula: “reformist trade unions are a school for capitalism” plays into the hands of the “leftists,” who do not realize the need to fight for the masses in the reformist unions and therefore ignore work in these unions, Both the one and the other line, in the long run, hinder the struggle for the united front from below, to win the working massts from the influence of the social-fas- cists. The authors of these formulas ignore Lenin’s teachings om the trade union inovement, Fighting against these and other mistakes which distort Levin's theory on the trade union movement, it is Japanese In Savage Drive Against the Manchurian Masses (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED the idea of setting up @ puppet Man- chu monarchy in Manchuria as a ralying point for the Manchurian princes and the most reactionary ele- and bankers. The Tsarist White Guards in Manchuria are reported to be supporting the monarclty scheme. The White Guards are con- tinuing their mobilization on the un derstanding arrived at with the Jap- for an early attack against the t Union, Elections for the Japanese Diet took place yesterday in Japan. Im- perialist press dispatches admit that the police was used to terror- ize the voters in ordet to keep the Selyukai party in power. The Japanese socialist party is also ad- mitted to be supporting the Japan- ese imperialists in thelr war on the Chinese mass and war provocations against the Soviet Union. A Jap- anese fascist party has been formed with the support of the socialists. A Tokio dispatch to the Néw York Times reports: “The Manchurian issue is not be- ing discussed, as both parties take a strongly pattiotic line and dis- sentients are slient. It is signifi- cant that a large number of mem- bers of the social democratic party recently quit under the influence of prevailing national sentiment and formed the national socialist party with sympathies akin to those of the German Nazis.” Sov ments among the Chinese landowners | IK entucky Gun About Their Murderous Deeds By ALFRED W PINEVILLE, Ky., gangster elements retained by t Vorse the scare of her life and “that | if she had been pregnant she woul id | F have had a miscarriage.” Atte amt to | violate the women in the writers’ | grouyy was referred to. | Much praise was bestowed upon a gangster leader from Detroit sawed-off gur ug who dt jpowerful Lincoln car. ‘The et | their conv ion as we neared Cin- cinnati, by ing that everything jis all r ryone is getting |* along fine in Bell County and aT outside agitators were their only | worry. However, in the next breath, | they ‘became confidential regarding the “law” of Bell County, saying that | if there is another cot in Ken- | tu y more crooked than Bell, then | every lousy citizen in it must be a crook; that more lies, falsification and prejury had been committed in the old and new Bell County court house than in all the United States. and that the corporation Sol hse! and | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) authentic and was witnessed by horrified foreign military observers and others.” Anéther Shanghai dispatch gives yet another vivid picture of the ruth- less and deliberate terror launched by the Japanese against the Chinees masses, It states: “The dead, the unconcern at mass killings; the terrifie cannonade coming from batteries of eight-inch guns; the futiilty of the defenseless as their homes and barns were burned were part of the picture of this new war zone, which I wit- nessed today. China fought back in a gallant efort to stop the big push which started with the dawn. “The Japanese army marched on. They shelled mercilessly in their attack, Fields were trampled. Homes and barns were destroyed. “Once I saw a defenseless Chinese farmer thrown into an icy cold: creek. I tried to rescue him and failed.” Incendiary bombs were used by the Japanese planes to set fire to work- ing clas districts outside of the direct war zone. Streams of Chinese re- fugees fleeing from the blazing dis- tricts were deliberately bombed by the Japanese planes. In many in- stances refuge crowds were raked with machine guns by Japanese troops. Wokers, including women with babies in their arms, were brutally shot down and torn to shreds by the invaders. This deliberate terror is aimed at crushing the revolutionary national strugle of the Chinese masses, The Chinese worker-peasant masses have repudiated the Nanking Kuomintang government and its traitorous co- operation with the imperialists. Every day sees new sections of the Chinese mass responding to the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party in the fight against the imperialists, Workers of America! Take your place in the front ranks of the in- ternational working-class struggle to stop the imperialist butchery of the Chinese masses! Stop the rob- ber war against China! Rally to the struggle against imperialist war! Join and build the Communist Party of the United States, the leader in the fight against imperial- ist war, Demand Hands off China! Hands off the Soviet Union! De- mand the withdrawal of all im- perialist armed forces from Man- churia and other parts of China! Demand the deportation of the Japanese diplomatic representa- tives, the agents of the murderous imperialist government of Japan which is slaughtering the Chinese workers and peasants! Prevent the export of arms and munitions to the Japanese imperialists! While the League of Nations con- tinues to declare that the wholesale butchery of Chinese workers is not war, iniperiglist press dispatches yes- terday admitted that the battle now raging in Shanghai is the greatest battle since the last World War. Fighting with poor equipment as a result of the treachery of the Nan- king government, the defense of Shanghai are putting up the most heroic resistance against the tremen- dous armament of the Japanese..The village of Kiangwan, the main im- mediate objetcive of the Japanese in- vaders, changed hands three time on Saturday. Tt is reported still oc- cupied by the Chinese, Chinese sol- diers by desperate fighting, drove the Japanese out of the village time and again. Four Japanese tanks were destroyed by exploding mines on Saturday. Two Japanese bombing planes wete brought down by anti-aircraft guns, No Chinese planes took the air to combat the Japanese planes, ‘The Nanking government has @ large fleet of airships and hundreds of trained pilots and mechanics, These are being used, not against the Didatorship and the role of the trade unions in the Proletarian Rev- necessary “to marter the complete teaching of Lenin on vhe Proletarian olution, ‘ (THE | END) ii JAPANESE BOMB CHINESE REFUGEES; DROWN WOMEN, CHILDREN IN CREEKS Japanese invaders, but against the | revolutionary Chinese masses and | against the Chinese Red Army. Latest | reports from Shanghai admit that | Chiang Kai-shek’s troops in the city are not helping in the defense. Chiang is using these troops in an effort to intimidate the Nineteenth Route Army which is fighting in defiance of his orders. The Japanese have expressed confidence that Chiang will not fight them. Chiang has refused to declare war on the Japanese. Japanese warships bombarding Chapei and Kiangwa on Saturday were answered by the big guns in the Chinese forts at Woosung. For- eign observers had expressed the opinion that these guns had been | demolished by previous Japanese | bombardments. A few days ago, Jap- | anese transports carrying thousands | of troops were permitted to pass with. in a few hundred feet of these forts. | | Foreign observers admitted that | the big guns at the forts could have sent the Japanese transports to the bottom of the river. This incident is another illustration of the traitor- ous maneuvers of the Kuomintang leaders who seize every opportunity to support the imperialists and betray Milwaukee (By a Worker Correspondent) MILWAUKEE, Wisc., Feb. 21—On February 4th, thousands of unem- ployed workers presented’ demands for immediate relief to single and married unemployed, but the bosses’ Politicians at the regular meeting re- ferred them to the committee on County Institutions, When a small committee of 35 workers from the Unemployed Couneil appeared at the meeting of the Committee on County Institutions Monday, Feb. 15th, the board members told us that they would have to come back again Wed., Feb. 17. On Feb. 17th, more than 500 work- ers, mostly single workers from the Flop Houses, soup lines, employment agencies, came down in an organized manner to the county building. The capitalist politicians were forced by the mass pressure of the workers there fo hold their regular meeting in large room, in the Circuit Court room, instead of the small committee room, where they were holding their regular meetings. More than a dozen workers, repre- sentatives of the Unemployed Coun- cil, took the floor and exposed the socialists, the Outdoor Relief Depart- ment, and Mr. Coffey, Notbohm and George Ziegler, who are starving the workers, Negro and white. While Mr. Notbohm’s belly is getting bigger every day, our belly is sinking in more and more every day, said one worker, pointing his finger at Mr. AGEN Feb. 21.—A group of attorneys and ‘ig hugs Brag KNECHT he coal corporations got on the train at Corbin, Kentucky, and between drinks, told of their participation in the reing of terror in the mining fields. They jokingly accused each other of +—— — a slugging Waldo Frank and Allen | Petty attorneys of Pineville could get ‘Taub and the entire conversation took |*yone to swear to anything in the form of pride in the job they did. Courts of that county, that inhocént Eventually, thinking they had said |™eM were sent to jail and guilty men too much they remarked that Waldo | ‘eed He Frank's wound was the result of his} Cineinnati comrades report that guilty conscience, One of them (guns and ammunition were being claimed to have given Mary Heaton |Prought into that city for the thug: and gangsters in Bell County. “High ered rifles to kill the miners” was the request made in attempting to purchase from one mérehant, who then refused to make the sale. Everything points to the fact that large mobilization of paid agérits nd gangsters of the coal corporations took place in Cincinnati and other northern cities preliminary to the isit of the group of writers and sympathizers headed by Walso Frank and Charles R, Walket A talk with the Kentucky miners who are working with the Workers |International Relief in Cineifihati cle S up the burning of the home of e Turner (Thomas in the news dispatches) in Harlan. Turner is a member of the WIR relief distribu- tion committee in Harlan. Three hundred rounds of ammunition were fired into his home a few days ago. He defended himself and it is re- | ported, shot several of the thugs. The deputy sheriffs claim that dissatis- |faction over relief distribution caused the shooting. It is now proven that |the shooting was organized to put a |stop to the issuance of relief to the striking and blacklisted miners. Three days after the shooting Turner's house was set afire and burned to the ground. He and his wife barely escaped with their lives. Turner's home was two miles outside of Har- lan, off of the corporation property of the Harlan Gas Coal Company. the mass defense. The British Cabinet is reported on a war basis as the tension between the robber imperialists continues to sharpen over the division of the spoils in China. An Emergency Shanghai Committee of the Cabinet has been appointed. The members of the Council of Action are reported keeping in close touch with the sit- uation in Shanghai where the inter- ests of the imperialists cross each other. The British Admiralty, War and Foreign offices were kept open day and night over the week-end. So sharp has the tension developed between British and Japanese im- perialists especially that a firm of electrical equipment manufacturers in Bolton, Lancashire, has suspended work on a consignment of portable search lights for the Japanese Navy. A London dispatch reports “the ac- tion was said to have been taken as a result of a communication from the Foreign Office.” 500 Demand Cash Relief at County Board Notbohm, and Ziegler, the court room. who were in The bosses’ clever demagogs tried to explain that there were 2,800 single men taken care of by the various charitable instituiions, but they did hot say anything about the other 10 thousand single unemployed who are starving, Only the other day, one worker dropped dead in the iescue Mission and 27 workers from Good- fellows House were sent’ to the Coun- ty Hospital, dying of starvation. The workers’ spokesmen told the County Institutions that the demands for cash relief to the single men of a $5 meal ticket per week and a $2 for room, as well as $12 a week for married workers unemployed plus $3 additional to each dependent, would be left with them to take immediate action upon, and that if no action ts taken by the Cotinty Board on Match 8th thousands of petitions with ‘sig- natures will be presented to ‘the County Board of Supervisors to back up these demands and force action. A mass demonstration will also take place on March 8th at the Old Court House, ‘The Unemployed Council is arrang- ing a huge mass meeting on March 2, at Liberty Hail, 8th and Walnut, 7:30 p. m., for Comrade Herbert Ben- jamin, the secretary. of the National Unemployed Councils who will speak on unemployment insurance. All wotkees are invited to attend. Italian Masses Against Fa NEW YORK.~A special story from! Paris by Edmond Taylor, special j writer for the Chicago Tribune for- ! eign cervice, tells of reported mass demonstrations against the fascist regime in Italy, The story states “A wave of unrest is sweeping Italy from north to south, and in many places disturbances have taken on the character of mass ris- ings of the country-side against the authorities, according to dispatches arriving here tonight trom anti- fascist sources, “The situaiion is feported par- ticularly serious in Florence. Dis- patches state that 1,000 unemployed stormed the headquarters of fas- cist syndicates and virtually turned it inside out. The ordinary police forces are helpless a nd only the arrival of re~ serves prevented the rivters frum Demonstrate — scist Regime lynching the authorities. “At Milan, where a few weeks ago there were disorderly demon- Strations by bank employes, crowds of jobless men made such a fow in front of relief headquarters that authorities doubled their food ta- tions, “Particular stress is laid hereon the "revolt of the peasants” be- cause folowing earlier disturbances in Sardinia and Istria, new riots were reported in Calabria and hroughout Lombardy. At Taur- inova, the south, peasants in sév- eral villages revolted against tax collectors but were subdued after a two-hour battle with the militia. Local officials barricaded them- selves in the Taurinova town hall and were besieged by a mob threat- ening them with death,”