The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 23, 1932, Page 3

WORKER, NEW_ YOUR, To E BRU ARY_ 28; 1932 a THE TASKS OF THE T. U. U. L. AND THE COMING NEW YORK CONFERENCE By JOSEPH ZACK, The ‘Trade Union Unity League in the New York District has doubled its membership since October, 1931, having, now 17,000 members and is growing at the rate of 1,000 to 1,500 new members each month. ‘The TUUL has 68 shop groups tn plants of more than 700 members. These plants total 35,000 employed workers (exclusive of the Needle 'Trades) nad 30 opposition groups in @lass collaboration unions which have a membership of about 50,000. Thus, including New Jersey, the appartt of the TUUL has direct organized con- tact with about 115,000 workers in New York City and vicinity, while its ideological influence is even wider. Upward Development The TUUL in New York district is distinctly in upward development not. only ideologically buf organiza- tionally as well, and our problems are ones of growth. The TUUL has in the last six months led about 11,000 workers in strikes against wage cuts and for wage increases. The workers defeated the wage cut in most of the strikes led by us and in the well or- ganized ones got wage increases and shop committee or union recognition. About 65 per cent of the strikes were won, the rest were lost. It will be seen from this that in the majority of the strikes we were either victor- ious or partially successful. We are becoming more proficient in leading workers in action. The Main Recent Activities ‘The last six months’ activities were marked by: (1) Spreading and more successful operation of our factory groups, (2) Building up of opposition groups in class collaboration unions. (8) Drive to eliminate burocratic Practices and organizational chaos in the inner workings of our unions. (4) Beginning of activities to attract the unemployed in the class collaboration unions and in industry generally. (5) Crystallization of united front from below tactics in practice in a number of industries. Another characteristic of the last six months activities is the growth of our young organizations in the metal and transport industries as well as the growth of the shoe workers union based not as in the past upon the small shops but on the contrary upon the large plants. Coming Struggles ‘The perspective for 1932 is one of many more strikes than in the year kone by. The wage cut offensive of the bosses is now hitting also the or- ganized labor aristocracy where wage- cuts of 10 to 30 per cent are demand- ed by the bosses even before the ex- piration of the collective agreements. As to the unorganized which in this district are about 90 per cent of the total of the working class, they have in most cases already received the third wage cut amounting altogether to 30 to 70 per cent of their “pros- perity” times wages and will in the course of the year undoubtedly re- ceive a fourth one which will leave the average wage of semi-skilled and unskilled at the low level of $10 to $16 per week, while that of the skilled will vary between $20 to $45 per week for a full week’s work. Accompany- ing the wage reductions is a further nitensification of speed-up, part time work, elimination of extra pay for overtime, and in some trades among the unorganized lengthening of the working day as well. In the first six months of the year we have already about 5,000 workers out on strike under our leadership in this district. Dictatorship by Injunction These strikes particularly those in food nad metal show the enormous obstacles the bourgeoisie is deter- mined to interpose and now in the economic struggle, be that struggle ever so small. ‘The police protection to struck plants is something extra- ordinary, There are more police than scabs and wherever there there is a little bit of fighting the place looks like a war camp inside of five min- utes with all the police armament in readiness from tear gas to machine guns. Particularly vicious has been -the use of court injunctions against us which are obtained by the bosses with ‘oxtraordinary rapidity and of a sweeping character prohibiting all movement or organization from a to z. ‘There are three types of injunctions we have to deal with in this district: 1, Injunction taken by a small boss covering the place struck. 2. Blanket injunction taken out by a corporation, trust or bosses asso- ciation covering all shops or plants under its jurisdiction, irrespective whether the workers in many of them are or are not on strike. 3. Blanket, permanent injunction taken out by the A-F.L, or “socialist” controlled union in agreement with the bosses, prohibiting us from strik- ing any of the shops in the whole trade whether organized or not, mo- nopoly of organization being claimed by the AP.L. union. (In this kind of trade whenever we succeed to or- ganize a shop, the boss signs up with the American Federation of Labor, whereupon the latter invokes the in- junction against us.) Police and Gangster Corruption ‘We see also closer co-operation of the gangster groups with the police against us in strikes, in some cases detectives officer the gangster groups. The harassing of our strike activi- rorism, we have lost some of our gains in the food and metal industry. ‘These facts and experiences ought to have considerable bearing as to what is to be done next. ‘The Main Inner Weaknesses of the TU UL In spite of the considerable ad- vances made due mainly to the ob- jectively favorable situation, and im- provements in our methods of work, our inner weaknesses must still be considered the main factor in not making greater advances. ‘These weaknesses are in the main of the following character: Clinging generally to agitation methods and tactics and often to outworn ones (this particularly in unions operating in trustified in- dustry.) 2. Sticking to small shop sections of industry, needle, food, etc. 3. Prosperity opposition tactics in class collaboration unions (building, needle, printing, pocketbook trades.) 4. Lack of planning or organiza- tion and financial questions and general gross underestimation of the importance of good organi- zation. 5. Lack of planned, collective ac- tivization of the membership, “the office” being the union, (food, needle, marine, etc.) 6. Separation from the struggle of the unemployed (shoe, metal, furniture, marine, transport, etc.) 7. Insufficient slarity on methods to attract the youth to the trade union movement and no specific meheds or tactics to attract women workers. 8. Outside of the needle trades no activities to attract Negro workers, 9. None of our unions engage in political struggles even of the every day elemental variety. They are not political minded. Slow to move jointly, “each for itself,” they come for help when they are in trouble but don’t get excited when others need it, the result is that collective action can be brought only partly and that only under tremendous pressure. 10, Our defense organization (legal defense, defense against gangsters and police terror) is chaotic and haphazard, each union for itself. 11. Strike preparations are mafnly agitational as to serious organizi- tional preparations, particularly as to strike funds, defense and relief. ‘They are in each case exceedingly weak. 12. United front activities are in the main still in an agitation not l* in action stage. This applies par- ticularly to the Food and Marine Workers Union, 13. Educational activities are badly organized with little or no planning or follow up. Lately there has been more top attention to the development of new cadres but all unions are bad in this respect, transport, metal, marine, medical building maintenance, are among the worst. 14. Our unions generally are at the tail of events, they act more or less planfully. Dnly under tremen- dous pressure from below or as on questions of a general nature or in affecting turns in thei raccustomed ' inne rattacks only under strong pressure from above. They are a driving force in the main in an agitational sense, generally handl- ing curren tbusiness and hoping for things to turn up. This lack of driving leadership is the main cause for the tremendous disportion between the objectively extraordin- arily favorable situation, our great ideological influence, and of the slowness of our organizational growth. 15. Practically no progress in organizing trade union work in Jersey, industrially the most im- portant territory in this district, What Js Being Done To Correct These Weaknésses We are a movement whose social composition flows: 1—from the unorganized with all the lack of organizational experiences and, 2—from the skilled organized trades where the bulk of members never Participated in union organizing ac- tivities. This terrific lack of inde- pendent class organzation experience Teflects itself diastrously upon our movement. ‘The American worker who grumb- led but hoped for better times or luck or left it to the strong leader is reflected in our organizational weakness. If we only, realize it and buckle down to learn'the most cle- mentary things in class organization in the economic and political field and do not tire to teach as much as we know to new comers, we will lead out of agitation on to action and or- ganization, from abstract agitation to concrete to everyday class politics not only on big things but on the small ones that stir even th emos’ back- ward worker, The Political Side of Organizattion ‘The question of organization is, of course, not a mere matter of tech- nique. Tt is primarily a political question, ‘The old unions were stabilized on the basis of either col- Jaboration with or toleration on the part of the bosses on the basis of an upward developing capitalism. A union with a small active and large passive membership could exist, “the office” functioning as the union, Red trade unions whose existence Women and War A New Pamphelt Now Ready to Spread What has the war in the East to do with women workers in factories, fields and homes in the United States What did the World War mean to women of the working-class, and what will the next imperialist war mean? What preparations is the United States making for war? And why does the capitalist class want war against the Soviet Union, the workers’ republic? ‘There are some of the questions answered in the new pamphlet, “Women and, War,” by Grace Hut- chins, published by the, Communist Party of the U. S., and now ready for distribution in connection with International Women’s Day, March 8. With illustrations and a picture- cover drawn by William Gropper, the pamphlet presents a most attractive appearance and it should be dis- tributed by the thousands not only women workers but among men workers as well. To secure the widest possible distribution for the March 8th demonstrations, send your bundle order today to Workers Library Pub- lishers, Box 148, Station D, New York City. Five cents per copy. $3.33 per hundred, plus express charges. Less than 50, no discount; 50 to 1,000, 33 1-3 per cent discount; 1,000 and over, 40 per cent discount. “ECONOMY” DRIVE HITS U.S. POST OFFICE WORKERS Substitute Clerks Fired By Thousands Thru- out teh U.S. A. (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Ill.—President Hoover's so-called economy drive has invaded the post office also. Asa result, hun- dreds of substitutes have been laid off. And the rumor has that all the sub- stitute clerks will be laid off eventu- ally. Those substitutes who are “fortun- ate” and happen to be working, are making two or three dollars a week. They are supposed to feed their fam~- ilies with these miserebly low wares. The purpose is to curtail the ex- penses, but the post c!fice dept. puts the wkole blams on the decrease of volume of mail. While it is true that the mail has been decreased consid- erably, particularly since January Ist, but on the other hand the speed-up system has been intensified to an un- precedented degree. The post office is swarmed with so-called “efficiency” experts, whose purpose is to stand like watch dogs and speed up the workers as much as possible. As everybody knows, three bills were recently introduced in Congress proposing wage cuts. The advocates of wage-cuts have such supporters as the fake progressive Senator Borah, And what are the officials of the National Union of Postal Clerks do- ing in order to resist the proposed wage cuts? Nothing! The union faker$ are not even making any ges- tures as their colleagues in the A. F. of L. do occasionally. Insteda of fight- Mass Protest PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Fred of inciting to riot. demanding the release of the their working-class activtiy. fought his own case in court. This is the first important case where a working-cléss fighter has conducted his own defense and the manner in which Bell handled this is a vital lesson in worker's self-defense. We therefore publish the following de- layed report of the trial. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb, 18. (By Mail).—With hundreds of workers crowding the Court Building barred from entering, Fred Bell, district or- ganizer of the International Labor Defense gave a masterful defense against the inciting to riot charges fense organizer was acquitted Friday, Feb. 2 He was arrested on Nov. 25th, for ad- dressing a demonstration in front of the Blawnox Work Hous He -——__ against him. Large groups of miners came into Pittsburgh to attend the trial. Jucge McConnelly of Boaver County, vicicus red-baiter who sent Muselin, Zima and Ressetar to long prisonterms, was brought in as & visiting judge to try the case. Ressetar, it will be remembered, died in prison after McConnelly re- fused to allow him to be transferred to a private hospital where he would have had a fighting chance for life. Muselin and Zima were recently par~ doned. Interest in Bell’s defense of his case is widespread. Local papers carry streamers on the front page in big black type. Telegrams from working-class organizations poured into coutt exerting tremendous pressure. Only newspapermen and lawyers were admitted and burly de- tectives guarded every door, Attor- ney Seligson, I. L. D, lawyer was not admitted at first but after a big fight he got through. Assistant District Attorney Jackson introduced four witnesses, all detec- tives. Under Bell’s grilling they con- tradicted one another on poin tafter point: on what he said in his speech, on whether he resisted arrest, on “inciting to riot,” ete. The prosecu- tion’s position was contradictory and unconvincing. John Cera, secretary of the Unem- ployed Councils of New Kensington was the first defense witness. The prosecuting attorney asked one of the detectives whether he knew Sera, whether he had had any “trouble” with him, and whether he had seen the worker at the demonstration be- fore the Blawnox penitentiary, Yes. Sera had caused lots of trouble. No, he was sure that Sera was not at the demonstration. Under Bell’s questioning, the of- ficer stated that he had counted 191 at the demonstration during the hectic fray. “In counting the people there, were you looking especially for Sera? Did you expect him to come here to testify in this case?” ‘The officer registered confusion. What kind of trouble did ‘Sera cause?” Bell pursued. “Did he mur- der anybody or steal, or bomb?” No, the officer said, hetried to force the miners out of the union they were in, into another one. That '|Bell’s Self- Detense Plus the Won Freedom Bell, International Labor De- 20. of the charge workers umprisoned there, for “How Did he force? force them, or did he speak to them? And was he trying to argue with the physically miners and convince them to or- ganize, and was it your business to keep them fro morganizing?” Again the officer registered con fusion. Sera was questioned closely by the prosecutor on the program of the Communist Party, on whether he be- Nieved in “overthrowing the govern- ment,” ete, The role of the Com- munist Party ‘was brought out very forcefully. Bvery objective of the defense was overruled by McConnelly and the prosecution sustained in everything save the question of Muselin and Zima. The prosecutor had opened the door himself to this by asking Superintendent Brown of the Blaw- nox workhouse whether Muselin and Zima were in jail at the time of the demonstration. “When Bell continued to ask what they were there for, etc., strong objection was made, but after a sharp argument, the defense was sustained. Bell cleverly took advan- tage of ever ylegal technicality throughout the trial. In examining himself, Bell told in great detail what the International Labor Defense stands for, and went into detail such as prisoners, relief, ete. He quoted the constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to the effect that it is the right of the people to aler or o abolish and insitute new governmen when they disapprove of the present goverh- ment. He quoted Woodrow Wilson, read- ing, “We have forgotten the very principles of our origin, if we have forgotten how to object, how to resist, how to agitate, how t pull dwn and build up even to the extent of re- volutionary practices—” Under cross examination, when he was asked whether he was in favor of establishing a government like that in the Soviet Union, he pointed out that here was no unemployment in the Soviet Union, or starvation in this country governed by the workers and peasants. Bell took most of the wind out of prosecuting attorney’s speech in tell- ing the jury, “What the prosecutor would say about the Communists.” In fact Jackson, who never before took less than 45 minutes to sum- marize, spoke about ten minutes. “What will become of the women?” Jackson dramatically pdeaded. But McConnellys’ charge was ex- tremely vicious. He practically told the jury that they had to convict. ‘The circumstanial evidence was enough to convict, he stated. Whether here was an actual riot or not didn’t matter. The case went to the jury onigh and a verdic will be presented tomorrow morning at 9 a. m. (The jury brought in an acquittal—Ed.) ing against the “stagger” system and wholesale dismissal of the substitute they being praising, in flowerq lan- guage,, the loyalty and the so-called patriotism of the sub-clerks. And as against the coming wage cuts, they express their indignation and wrath with such sharp and threatening phrases as “it is unjust,” “we will be hurt” etc, production must have a tremendous large active ad ha for collective leadership. The Essential Difference Organization inside big plants can only be done by developing the workers that work there into rank and file organizers, This essential difference between old organizing tactis emanating from class cola- boration days and red trade union organization is not understood, The result is we also have “offices.” Very often we have said to our red op- position; “independent leadership of economic struggles,” but the tactics to achieve it, the organization meth~ ods with which to carry it through have by no means been made clear ‘as yet, we have by far not as yet convinced our own red opposition that the new opposition tactics are necessary or feasible. More Political Discussion We often said that strikes are feasible and can be won in times of crisis. Generally our active members will say yes, we illustrate it by ex- ample, actually when it comes to their “own” industry or shop they will often answer no. If not verbally then actually,,by their behaviour in practice. It is but seldom that the maneuvers of the American Federa- tion of Labor or the socialist party are a subject of discussion in our unions. A denunciatory article some- times analytical 1s as much as we take notice of them. The result is a low political level in our every day activity, Planning to Reach 25,000 In order to get the trade unions and leagues to reach out more ef- fectively towards the solution of the tasks enumerated, we propose a planned “improve the organization and recruiting campaign.” Each union and league to set itself objec- tives according to its own possibilities and problems. The sum total of this drive to result In improving our or- ganization generally and bringing the membership of the T. U. U. L. in this district up to 25,000 members by the end of May. ‘The plans for this drivé wili be JAPANESE, THWARTED AT SHANGHAI, WREAK FURY ON CHINESE MASSES {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) troying Chinese homes. Where in- cendiary bombs dropped by the Jap- anese airplanes failed to spread suf- ficiently destruction, the houses were put to the torch by Japanese sold- jers. Unnumbered Chinese workers were brutally shot down while at- tempting to flee from their burning huts, Japanese airplanes, swooping low, raked huge crowds of Chinese refugees with machine gun bullets. The dispatch further states: “The road to the front was crowded with refugees. They scar- cely seemed human as they hob- bled along in rags. Many were barefooted. They carried bundles and babies strapped on their backs. Many women limped through the mud, carrying staggering loads — all their possessions. They had not the slightest idea of their des- tination, except to get away from shot and shell.” Tt was against refugee crowds like these, composed mostly of women and their babies and children, that the Japanese vented their fury for the blocking of their offensive by the heroic resistance of the workers of Shanghai and the soldiers who are fighting in defiance of the orders of the traitorous Kuomintang leaders. Nanking Government Train Machine starving, arrived in Nanking yester- day. A Nanking dispatch says they “presented a picture of mass misery at the Sanpaslou refugee camp near here today which was without para- lel in the present Chino-Japanese conflict.” ‘The refugee camp ‘s closely guard- ed by the Nanking militarists who have trained machine guns on the camp with orders to their soldiers to shoot down the refugees at the slightest. sign of revolt against the miserable conditions and the traitor- ous Nanking government which, with its imperialist masters, is directly responsible for these conditions. relief station, responsil front from Chapei to Woosung. ‘The Chinese carried out a strat- egic retreat from the town of Kiangwan, drawing the pursuing Japanese Army into a trap, The dispatch states: “When the Japanese concen- trated on the Chinese right flank, the left and center swung around to surround the enemy on three sides, leaving only a narrow line of retreat through which the Jap- anese fell back, covering their withdrawal with rifle and mach- ine gun fire.” The Chinese forces pressed their advantage closely, the dispatch states, adding: “So bitter was the Chinese re- sistance at Kiangwan that the Jap- anese were obliged to draw rein- forcements from the Hongkew sec- tor.” A Chinese trench mortar scored a direct hit on the headquarters of the Japanes» naval landing parties in the International Set- tlement, setting fire to the build- ing. United States warships were reported to have been in the linc of fire from the Chinese guns. Japanese Fortify In Hankow As Red Army Tightens Net ‘The Japanese imperialists are throwing up more defenses at Han- kow, as the Chinese Red Armies con- tinue to tighten their net around tha timportant industrial and stra- tegic Central China city. A Hankow dispach reports that the Japanese concession in the city has been for- tified by earthworks supported by steel and iron plates. All roads into this area loosed from China have been blocked by barbed-wire entan- glements. Sandbag barricades and machine gun “pillboxes” have been erected at various strategic points. ‘These preparations are directed a- gainst the threat of an armed up- rising by the workers in Hankow in support of the Chinese Red Army. ‘The early fall of Kanehow, in Southern Kiangsi, a Chinese Red Army force is expected. The United States imperialists are demanding that the Nanking government send troops to Kiangsi Province to beat off the Chinese Red Army. The Nan- king traitors, however, are unable to ca out this instruction as most of Kaingsi province is in the hands of the Chinese Red Army and the revolutionary workers and peasants. Attacks on Japanese Increase in Manchuria. In Manchuria, too, the Japanese are facing a determined resistance at the hands of Red partisan troops, Mukden dispatches yesterday ad- mitted that an important revolt had broken out against the new puppet government set up by the Japanese and their Chinese tools. Two thou- sand Chinese troops are reported marching on Imienpo, an important railway station about 150 kilometers from Harbin. The dispatches admit that the Chinese had already driven out the Japanese garrison of Wukim- iho, and occupied that town. Wuki- miho is 20 kilometers northwest of Imienpo. The troops of the puppet Chinese governor of Kirin are re- ported retreating to the South. News of Defeats Increases Unrest in Japan, The reverses suffered by the Jap- anese at Shanghai are intensifying the unrest in Japan and causing grave concern to the Japanese im- perialists. The Japanese government has suppressed news as far as was possible of the events at Shanghai, issuing lying statements of tremen- dous Japanese victories against the Chinese defenders of Shanghai, but the news of the Japanese defeats have leaked out. The Japanese gov- ernment is reported to be rushing moré troops to Shanghai. There are already over 77,000 Japanese troops at that city, although the lying im- perialist press has been putting the figure at a little over 25,000. Japanese Jobless Demnostrate. Large demonstrations of unem- ployed Japanese workers were held yesterday in various districts of Tokyo in defiance of a police ban against such demonstrations. Com- munist leaflets were widely dis- tributed, The police arrested sev- enty of the unemployed workers. ‘The.European border states on the Soviet frontier are busy carrying on a vicious war provocation against the Soviet Union at the same time that the Japanese are consolidating their hold on Manchuria and pushing large bodies of troops nearer to the Siberian borders of the Soviet Union. Two days ago, the Polish fascists broadcasted over the radio a state- ment that the Stalingrad Tractor factory had stopped the production of tractors and was turning out tanks. They based this statement on the claim that the Soviet Union had stopped reporting on the number of tractors daily turned out by the Stal- ingrad factory. Yesterday, the Hun- garian newspaper Reggeli Ujsag printed a dispatch from Constanza, Rumania, saying a Rumanian war- ship returning from the North, re- ported the Soveit Union was laying mines near Rumania’s Black Sea border, and blocking the entrances to Soviet Union ports with mines. Pre- vious statements broadcasted by the imperialists claiming war prepara- tions by the Soviet Union have been Subsequently admitted to be false even by the imperialist liars them- selves. Even the Japanese “imperialists while carrying on their monstrous provocations against the Soviet Union have been forced to admit the firm peace policy of the Soviet Union, More Workers’ Organizations Line Up in Mooney Fight MILWAUKEE, Wis.—Two hundred fifty workers crowded the Jefferson Hall on Feb. 17th to attend a Mooney-Billings protest meeting. A resolution was drawn up at- tacking the frame-up of Mooney and Billings and the Imperial Valley prisoners, demanding that Governor Rolph of California effect their im- mediate and unconditional release. A resolution was sent to Judge J. A. Hawkins of Alabama protesting against the attempt to railroad the nine Scottsboro Negro boys to the electric chair, “We hold you and the Governor of Alabama responsible for any harm resulting to these boys” said part of the resolution. ‘The meeting also protested the railroading of Sam Harman, a 58 year old, unemployed worker to 30 days in jail, because suffering from heart trouble and other ailments, he re- fused to work on the forced labor Jobs of the Milwaukee County. “We demand the immediate freedom of Sam Harman, the removel of Zieg- ler, head of the Fond du Lac Avenue for framing up this worker and the removal of the vicious labor hating Judge Page who denied a right to a trial to this worker” said the resolution, eo wif CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 19.— Final arrangements for the Free ‘Tom Mooney street run that is to take place on Saturday, Feb. 27th at 3.30 p. m, is being made by the In- ternational Labor Defense and the Labor Sports Union. Numerous work- ing-class clubs have already sent in their entry blanks to participate in this event. The run will start from 65th and Detroit. Avenue and from 55th and Central Avenue. A silver cup is being offered by the I. L. D. to the first’ club that reaches the Public Square. There will also be a worker: parade terminating in a mass dem- onstration at the Public Suare at 4p. m, The parade will be led by ten workers dressed in prisoners un.- forms. ‘This event ts being held in con- nection with the anti-Olympic cam- paign arranged by the Labor Sports (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 ONB) {are in even though he died in 1924—because | they have never been able to find an- other leader. They said that heaven Russia and hell is right here in the U, S. They are cl one | | | million dollars a day for the and don’t give the miners any of it. ‘They say they are going to overthrow | the government in less than eight months. They kept me under guard and the only thing that prevented me and my wife from getting killed | ol that I carried and that I had to f in their faces all the time. I was always under a guard | of from eight to ten and never could | go out by myself. They gave me 14] cents a day and said I had to live! on that, They said the reason they weren't very strong yet was that they | first had to throw every G— D— church in the U. 8. in the lake and they were going to do that pretty soon. They said that they were or- ganizing things over here like they! 8 KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Feb. was an old pi days. interfered with. All section mass meetings scheduled for yesterday were postponed on ac- count of heavy rain. A National Miners Union local was formed in Valley Creek Mine near Pruden with 60 men. An effort will be made to- mortow to pull this mine out on strike. The coal operators sent a doctor to the Middlesboro Workers Interna- (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED ment ts engaged in a desperate at- tempt to push the world working class into another blood bath in the effort to find a way out of the crisis now engulfing wofld capitalism, a way out at the expense of the life blood of the toiling masses, at the expense of flourishing Socialism in the Soviet Union, where unemploy- ment has been abolished and the conditions of the toiling masses are being constantly improved precisely ab the time when tens of millions of workers in the capitalist countries are thrown on the streets to starve. The British imperialists are like- wise rushing fciward with their prep- otetions for war. More British war- ships are speédir.g to Shanghal. The British are sending huge supplies of arms and munitions to Shanghai. The British War and Admiralty Of- fices are being kept open night and day for tee first time since the last World War, The British Cabinet has appointed an Emergency Shanghai committes to keep in touch with de- velopments in Shanghai. The .United States and British forces in Ehanghai are feverishly strengthening the defenses of the In- ternational Settlement against the revolutionary masses of Shanghai who are carrying on a heroic resis~ tance gaainst the robber war to di- vide up and loot China. The United States has removed most of its na- tionals from the Yangtze cities in preparation for a joint imperialist attack against the Chinese Revolu- tion and its Red Army, against the powerful Chinese Soviet Republic, the only force capable of liberating China from the enslavement of the imper- jalists and their Kuomintang running dogs. Against whom are these tremen- dous war preparations aimed? Not against the Japanese, except as a re- mote eventuality. A dispatch from Geneva shows clearly that the im- perialists are frantically striving to submerge their ever sharpening an- tagonisms over the division of the spoils in China, and are desperately seeking a formula for the partition of China satisfectory to all the im- perialist brigands, in order to main- tain the imperialist front against Soviet China and the Soviet Union. Union for some time in July. Tom Mooney is honorary chairman of the AntiOlympic Campaign. The occa- sion also being the fifteenth year of sentencing to the electric chair of Tom Mooney on Feb. 24th. . * . MILWAUKEE, Wis.—More workers organization her eare lining up in the campaign to free Mooney, Bil- lings and all class war prisoners now in jail. Nine women’s and men’s singing societies sent resolutions to Governor James J, Rolph, Sacramento, Call- fornia demanding the immediate and unconditional release of Mooney and Billings. They attacked the fiendish plot to keep them from the ranks of the working-class by {ll-treating them in such a way as to cause their death, Among the singing societies sending resolutions are the following: Schwa- ben Damenchor, Northwest Side Fret- heit Damechor, Socialist Maenner- chor, Milwaukee Liedertafel, the So- cialist’ Leidertafel, Aester-Hungarian Gesegverien, Rheinlander Verein and Gesavevien Bavaria and Nature Friends. Rd number of these organizations also passed resolutions demanding the freedom of the nine Sootteboro INTO OFFICE OF WORKERS U.S. WAR DEPARTMENT & ORDERS RUSH PRINTING OF DRAFT BLANKS IN WAR MOVE Hs « INTERNATIONAL RELIEF are in "Ritasia, where if you mention the name of Jesus Christ you get killed in a minute. They said they ght to come down here and bring prisoners out of jail.” This half insane outburst is char- acteristic of the attacks that are dis- seminated every day against the union and the Communist Party. The last sentence, however, strikes a new note, one that indicates gun thugs are offering reasons in advance for a raid on the jail and the murdering of the comrades there, . 8 DULUTH, Minn.—The Comms- nist Party, Young Cotmmanist League and Trade Union Unity League have afranged mass protest mass meetings against the murder of Harry Simms by the Kentacky coal operators thugs. The meeting in Superior will be held Monday, Feb. 22nd, at the Tower Hall and in Duloth Tuesday, Feb. 23r, at the Camels Hall, 22.—Under the pressure of the ‘terrific terrorism of the coal operators coupled with starva- tion, some miners have gone back to work within the last few As a result in some sections union activities have been Oneness ae tional Relief station to condemn the clothing sent in as “germ ridden.” but he was forced to declare them sanitary, The doctor said he orant« arily did not work for the operatore but was drafted because all the cbm- pany doctors were working overtime handling starvation cases among (yy Straight Creek miners. UI ben The dispatch admits that “a spirit of extreme caution” and care against offending Japanese imperialism has, settled over the deliberations of the! League of Nations on the Chinese situation. It says: “This caution rises from the cer- tainty that the big Powers are un- willing to take active méasures against Japan. But this is only one way of saying that Great Britain is unwilling. The British cover themselves by saying that Wash- ington is equally unwilling. With the small Powers pressing the large ones to do something to dem- onstrate the reality of the League of Nations, the Assembly will prob- ably be the greatest festival of passing the buck that the world has ever witnessed. “unless Japan deliberately pro- vokes war With Great Britain and America it can be taken as inevita- ble that the big Powers will not fihd Japan guilty of anything which brings Article XVI of the League Covenant and the sanctions of the article into play. “. , . At the risk of letting Japan have free run in China, at the risk or even the certainty of a future war between the East and West. Geneva leaders are convinced that it is wiser to pursue a cautious course today.” ‘The imperialists are NOT letting Japan have a free hand in China, ex- cept in so far as the Japanese ag- gressions do not conflict with the interests and desires for loot of the other imperialist powers, The United. States, England, France and Italy now have huge armed forces at Shanghai and large numbers of war- ships up the Yangtze River. What is happening in China today ts al- ready a joint armed intervention of the imperialist powers against the Chinese Revolution, with the Jap- anese imperialists acting as the spearhead in the murderous attack on thé revolutionary Chinés¢ masses The League of Nations is now using the betrayal of the Chinese people by the Kuomintang to justify its present course. The Geneva dis- patch cynically declares: “since China herself has not acknowledged that war exists and keeps her charge d'affaires at Tokio, the League would hardly force formal war upon her.” . Workers! The war preparations are directed primarily against the Soviet Union and against the Chin- ese Revolution. The Geneva dis- patch above quoted plainly shows that the imperialists are attempt- ing to overcome their antagonisms, are trying to maintain the united front for the partition of China and armed intervention against the Soviet Union in whose successful Socialist construction lies the only hope for the toiling masses of the whole world. Workers! It js against your class interests, as well as against your lives and safety that the war prep- arations of the imperialist mur- derers are directed! Rally to the. fight against imperialist wart Smash the war plots of the bosses. Prevent the shipment of munitions and troops to the Far Hast! Rally in a tremendous iron defense of the ~ Soviet Union and of the Chinese. masses and the Chinese Soviet Re- public! Demand Hands off the Soviet Union! Hands off Chinal Demand the withdrawal of all ime perialist armed forces from Chinaf Demand the expulsion of the diplo- matic agents of the Japanese im-