The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 29, 1932, Page 1

— 4 WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! =~, orker unist Party U.S.A. ‘(Section of the Communist International) All Out for “Daily” Tag Days March 11, 12, 13.—Watch For Address of Your Nearest Station at New York, N. Y.. = “Vol. 1X, No. 51 matter at ler the act of March 5, 1879 © Post Oifies Giv Epon eee a ts _ NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1932 Price 3 Cen KENTUCKY MINERS MEET IN FACE OF “DEATH DRIVE” U.S.S.R. INSTERN WARNING DEMANDS JAPANESE HALT WAR PROVOCATION Denounces Japanese Support of White Guards in Manchuria; Soviet Press Answers Japanese Lies Workers! Demand the Expulsion of the Diplo- matic Representatives of the Japanese Imperialist Robbers BULLETIN. HAMBURG, Feb. 28.—The windows of the Japanese Consulate in this city were smashed by indignant workers protesting the robber war against China and the war provocations by the Japanese imperialists against the Soviet Union. The demonstration took place on February 11. The stones used were wrapped in leaflets protesting against the imper- ialist slaughter in China and expressing solidarity with the Chinese So- viets, Attempis by the police to arrest some of the workers were de- feated by the militancy of the demonstraotrs. ~ The mass anti-war movement in Germany is growing rapidly. Harbor workers and seamen in this city are militantly taking up the question of preventing the shipment of arms to the Japanese imperialists, : . . The Soviet Union has issued a stern warn- ing to the Japanese imperialists in connection wth the movement of Japanese troops towards the Sovet frontier and the mobilization by the Japanese of the Tsarist White Guards:in Man- churia for a joint attack on the Soviet Union. Maintaining its firm peace policy, the Soviet Union has warned the Jap- anese and other imperialists that the Soviet masses: coveting not anjinch of the soil of others will grimly defend their own soil against the sinister plots of the imperialists for armed Longshoremen Vote i to Strike Against | 10 P. C. Wage Cut} NEW YORK, Feb. 28. — The | meeting of locals 338, 327, 346, 929, | 1199, of the International Long- | shoremen's Union called by the | officials yesterday at 213 Columbia | Street, Brooklyn, to put over a 10 percent wage cut on the long- shoremen was taken over by the | rank and file and turned into a| meeting denouncing the corrupt leadership and calling for a strike against the cut. i The officials used up many| words in trying to convince them the wage cut was to their bene- fit and read a letter from Presi- dent Ryan telling the longshore- men to take the cut. But one worker after the other took the floor condemning the cut and calling for a strike. Demands for unemployment insurance were made. When the vote was taken, the decision was overwhelmingly for a strike to start April Ist. ATTENTION! ALL PARTY AND Y.C.L. MEMBERS IN A.F.L. ‘There will be a very important meeting at the Workers Center, 35 E. 12th St., tonight at 7:30. Every member of the Party and Y. C. L. who belongs to the A. F. of L. is instructed to be at this meeting. No matter what other meeting you may have, you are instructed to be at the mecting at the Workers Center. It will be a short meeting, and therefore every other meeting must be drop- ped. The District excuses you from these other meetings. We expect 100 percent attendance at this meeting. Communist Party of U. S, A, District Secretariat. intervention against the Soviet Unions: and its successful Socialist construc- tion. ise " L. M. Karakhan, Assistant Foreign Commissar, accompanied this warn- ing with some trenchant questions ei \ the Japanese Government through its ambessador at Moscow, Kioki Hirota. A cable to the New York Times from | its Moscow correspondent declares the | following points were raised: NEW TACTICS IN THE HUNGER OFFENSIVE State “Unemployment Insurance” to Stabilize Demand Explanation from Japanese | Starvation Imperialists | ao es 1, The Japanese command at Har- | By BILL DUNNE. biny requested the Chinese Eastern | Article 1. Railway to put at its disposal seven- | teen trains for transporting Japanese | troops to Imienpo and Pogranichnaya, | points near the Siberian frontier of | the Soviet Union. The request was made under the pretext of protecting | the lives of Japanese residents. EKar- } akhan informed the Japanese am- | bassador that this was not in the} nature of the usual troop movements, | but that it appeared as if the troops | were intended for the Soviet border. It was asked whether the Japanese government was aware of this request. | siderable energy as the pres- If so, an explanation was demanded. | ; + ;, under 2 Karakhan took up with Hirota |idential campaign gets the request of the Japanese command | way. A number of proposals for “unemployment insurance” ing class. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) What Is Your Answer? Last week we were barely able, by scrimping together every possible penny, to keep the Daily Worker up to its four pages for week days, and fo put out the usual six-page on Saturday, The Daily Worker has an enormous task to per- lorm at this critical moment. In face of the rob- r war against China and the unconcealed threats seizing territory from the Soviet Union—the Daily Worker must continue with all its energy to rouse and organize the working class against the war for plunder. Yet at this moment the Daily Worker, the cen- tral organ of the Communist Party, which leads the workers’ struggles, is threatened with suspen- sion because of financial difficulties. The results of the drive last week were not enough to eli- minate the suspension danger. In fact we are worse off this week because last week’s response was not enough, We are confident the workers of America will not desert their paper. This confidence has given us courage to go ahead, with printing a six-page paper last Saturday and the regular four-page paper today. We are confident the workers will not let their paper go under in this emergency. Rush funds, rush every possible penny to save the ‘Daily Worker. “Unemployment insurance’ “Unemployment insurance” providing nothing for the millions now jobless, the “Give a Million Jobs’ campaign headed by the fascist American Legion and American Fed- eration of Labor leadership and the “Block-Aid Service,” sponsored by the Hoover-Gifford Emergency Relief Commit- tee, together constitute the new offensive against the more than 12,000,000 unemployed and the entire American work- ’ is being taken up by the more demagogic leaders of the capitalist political parties with con- & have been brought forward in the last month by official and semi- official state bodies. But none of these proposals pro- vide for present unemployment, It is not hard to find the reasons for this verbal swing toward the hated “dole” by capitalist party poli- ticians. The reasons are to be found in the steady drop of production in most all basic industries—especially steel, railways, coal and building con- struction—in the face forced official optimism and frenzied tnflationary measures of Wall Street government now operating as a coali- tion of the democrat and republic parties—and the growing discontent and militancy of a working-class sinking deeper into misery. Proquction in basic industries made a new low record for the'crisis period on Feb. 20, according to the sensitive index of the New York Evening Post. The index for basic production as a whole stood at 53 on that date as against 54 the previous week, 58 on Jan. 23, as against 73 for the same date in 1931. In some states production is below that of 1910, i So acute has the situation become in densely populated states like New York, with the growing mass senti- ment against the ghastly inadequacy and callous cruelties of the Hoover- : Gifford Emergency Relicf program, so glaring is the failure of the muni- cipalities’ and states to provide any- thing in the way of sufficient relief appropriations, that there is evidence of panic among those sections of of- ficialdom which are in somewhat close contact with the hungry mil- lions. “Extensive governmental unem~- ployment relief is necessary, ac- cording to the results of a State survey, which shows that payrolls are 55 per cent worse than for the corresponding period last year . . . that outside assistance will be re- quired by communities representing ACUNTINDED ON PAGE THREE) of all tha! WAR AGAINST CHINA! (STATEMENT OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY, U.S.A.) 'HE murderous, robber war of Japanese imperialism against the Chinese people in Manchuria and in Shanghai is being extended with a fiendish intensity, Japanese imperialism is waging war along the Yangtze Valley massing hordes of troops armed with the most \ modern instruments of destruction, slaughtering thou- | sands of defenseless men, women and children. Jap- anese imperialism, waging a ferocious war for the looting of China, is bombarding the civilian popula- tion, concentrating its murderous attacks on working- class sections, leaving in its trail famine, destruction, death. Inspired and encouraged by the imperialist powers of the whole world, particularly by the United States and France, the arrogant Japanese imperialist but- chers are utilizing Manchuria more and more as a base for war against the Soviet Union. Japanese im- perialism, as part of its war moves against the Soviet Union is mobilizing the most vicious anti-Soviet for- ces, the remnants of the Czarist scum in Manchuria, the scattered troops of the white-guard armies, the mercenary bands of the Semenoffs and the Kolchaks. Japanese imperialism, with the blood of thousands of Chinese men, women and children on the point of ‘its bayonets, is pushing closer towards the Soviet Union. ‘This widening of the war front against China, and the immediate danger of an armed attack by Japanese imperialism, as the spearhead of all the imperialist robbers, against the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics, demands that the movement of mass pro- test which has already expressed itself in numerous mass meetings, and resolutions, demonstrations and anti-war conferences, must be extended to include millions in organized mass actions. The creation of the broadest fighting united front for the carrying through of mass actions against the extending rob- ber imperialist war, te~expose the bloody drive of Japanese imperialism in China, against the war pro- vocations on the Soviet Union, is a task of the utmost necessity in order to mass new millions behind the slogans: “Stop the Robber War in China.” “Hands Off China!” “Defend the Soviet Union!” The adventurous, imperialist war of Japanese im- perialism, carried on in a welter of blood of the Chin- ese masses, which has already resulted in the massing of a Japanese imperialist army of 100,000 in China, has, at the same time, further sharpened the rivalry between the imperialist powers. The antagonism, es- pecially between the United States and Japan, both seeking booty and colonial plunder in China, have been intensified, increasing the danger of a world imperialist war; increasing the danger of a new slaughter of millions of the working masses. Despite the fact that the imperialist antagonisms sharpen, the provocations and war activities of Tokyo against the U.S.S.R. and the Soviet territories in China re- ceive the approval and support of United States im- perialism. The capitalist press in this country daily encourages the Japanese militarists to strike against the U.S.S.R. by trying to entice the Japanese impe- rialists, holding forth the possibilities of the seizure of Vladivostock, Sakhalin and other Sovict territories in Siberia. American imperialism, under the hypocritical cover of “defending” the “integrity” of China against the Japanese, is mobilizing its forces’ for war to secure the greatest shave. in the plunder. American impe- rialism has constantly’ and ‘ now violating the in- tegrity of China. Its battleships have bombarded Chinese cities. Its marines are now in China. It maintains its tmperialist privileges as an enslaver of | ; ; | full weight of the mighty protests of the American China. Its entire fleet is now prepared to defend Wal? Street's “interests” in China. The declaration of Hoover, Stimson and Borah to annul the naval “agreement” as a pretext to enforce the Nine-Power Pact, means the strengthening of these war prepar- ations that American imperialism is carrying on in the Pacific. ‘To help this war policy of American imperialism, a boycott movement, led by the ex-secretary of war, Newton D. Baker, who as a “pacifist” played a leading role in plunging the American workers into the last World War, has been started, whose aim is to spread new pacifist illusions among the masses in the face of the bankruptcy of the League of Nations and the Kellogg Pact. The “boycott’? movement, supported and initiated by some of the foremost agents of Wall Street, such as Kemmerer, Lowell and Baker, is an effort to facilitate the war mobilization of the masses on behalf of United States imperialism; to bring pres- sure against Japan to turn its present bloody conflict in China, with its experience in slaughtering the Chinese masses, in the direction of the Soviet Union. At the same time, the “boycott” campaign, with its new pacifist illusions, is a screen for the war prepar- ations of American imperialism against Japan over the greatest share of the booty in China, The “boy- cott” propaganda is made on behalf of American im- perialism and is not directed against the murderous Japanese war which now is slaughtering thousands of the Chinese people. ‘The backers of the “boycott” are among the leading agents of Wall Street, who themselves have systematically aided American impe- rialism in plundering the Chinese masses, shooting down Chinese workers and peasants. Newton D, Baker is attempting to sape®s at the present time his “pa- cifist” role as instigator of a new imperialist war. The Socialist party, like the leaders of the American Federation of Labor, through all its actions, through its support of the imperialist program of the Second International, supports the Hoover war program. They try to mask their war policy, their hatred against the Soviet Union, under the guide of sympathy for | China. The Socialist party, concealing the imperial- ist aims of Wall Street in China, by spreading im- | | perialist propaganda about a “Japanese-Soviet pact,” supports the policy of Aimeriean imperialism, Norman Thomas going to the extent of calling on the Hoover hunger government to take a “strong hand” in China. At the same time, they are continuing and intensifying their policy of raising funds for the counter-revolu- tionary mensheviks, who work with the imperialists and the czarist white-guards for intervention and war against the Soviet Union. The American clique of the Second International supports the program of im- perialism through the League of Nations, which un- der the chiarmanship of Arthur Henderson, a leader of the Second International, who as president of the Geneva Conference of the League of Nations, rejected tue only genuine disarmament proposals made there by Maxim Litvinoff, representative of the U.S.S.R. Despite ihe treachery of Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang, which facilitated the unparalleled slaughter now carried on by the Japanese mauraders, the invasion of the Japanese imperialists is being met by the fiercest resistance of the Chinese masses, on the part of the workers and peasants, and especially that section of the rank and file of the Chinese army which has the closest connection with the revolution- ary proletariat and peasantry. The Chinese people are waging an heroic, defensive war against the imperialist invasion of the murderous Japanese imperialists. Inspired by the heroic deeds and self-sacrifice of the Red Army of China, the Chinese masses are unifying their forces to carry fur- ther this: anti-impenielist struggle-against al the im- Perialist robbers and invaders. Japanese imperialism at the present time plays the part of executioner of the revolutionary Chinese mas- ses, acting as the spearhead of the imperialist forces directed against the Chinese Soviets. Japanese imperialism is sheding the blood of our brothers in China. The deeds of Japanese imperial- ists, their wholesale butcneries of defenseless masses, show that world capitalism will stop at nothing, that no act is too foul, in its war of oppression and plunder of the colonial peoples. The world imperialists. are striving with Japanese imperialism now in the forefront, to trample under its iron heel the land of flourishing socialism, the father- land of the toilers of the whole world. ‘While the Japanese working and peasant masses face hunger and begin a revolutionary struggle agianst their capitalist oppressors, Japanese imperialism is increasing its forces of destruction and war in China, preparing for an intensification of the slaughter that has gone on before the eyes of the whole world. Workers and farmers! Mobilize your forces to beat back the imperialist war mongers! Support the Chin- ese people in their heroic fight against Japanese im- perialism and against the other imperialist powers who with their armies are ready to pounce upon the Chinese territories for further colonial plunder. The driving out of China of the Japanese impcrial- ists by the Chinese masses must be supported by the workers of every country. This task, accomplished by the revolutionary determination of the Chinese mas- ses, backed by the workers everywhere, would be a Setback for the imperialist plant to destroy the Chin- ese Soviets, would be a mighty resistance to the im- perialist plans for war against the Soviet Union. It would be a victory for the proletariat in their struggle against the imperialist attempts to seek a way out of the crisis through war and by unloading greater bur- dens on the backs of the toiling population Let the Japanese imperialists, leading the robbery and slaughter by all the imperialist powers, feel the toilers! Let United States imperialism know that the workers of this country will fight with all their strength against the subjugation, the destruction and dismem- berment of China no matter what form it takes. Fight against American imperialism, and its plans to direct the present bloody slaughter of the Japanese imperialists in China into a war as well against the Soviet Union. Build a powerful wall of proletarian solidarity in defense of the Soviet Union! Stop the robber war! Stop the transporiation of arms and ammunition which American imperialism is sending for war against the Chinese people and against the U.S.S.R.! Demand the withdrawal of Japanese troops from Shanghai and Manchuria! Demand American troops and warships get out of China! Drive out the diplomatic representatives of the murderous Japanese imperialism in the United States! Force their expulsion! Demonstrate against them! Hail the revolutionary struggle of the toiling masses of Japan against the war! Hands off China! Defend the Soviet Union! ap Lak ‘ \ i Yass ae > COAL BOSSES “GIRD FOR BATTLE TO DEATH WITH COMMUNISM” |Harlan Coal Bosses Offer $1000 Reward for Organizer “Dead or Alive” BULLETIN. The Harlan County Operators Association has posted a one thousand dollar reward for Harry Jackson dead or alive. Jackson is District Or- ganizer of the Communist Party. . . . JELLICO, Ky., Feb. 28.—A strike confer- ence with one or more delegates from each mine in the sixty-mile strike area, those work- ing as well as striking, is to be held here this afternoon. The conference has been called and will be held in the face of the bloodiest and most widespread terror in the recent his- tory of the American working class. This terror is on the increase throughout the strike zone and is under the personal direction of leading figures in the capitalist world. The following is but one of many examples of the cold-blooded preparations that are being made for the murder of Communists in Kentucky. It appeared in today’s issue of the Knoxville Journal under the headline “Kentuckians begin death drive on Communist Party” and reads as follows: «CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) United Front Calls to Reject the Schlesinger Wage-Cut Settlement Masses of Furriers Force Judge to Deny In- junction Against Industrial Union NEW YORK, Feb. 29.— The yellow socialist “Forward” and the Tammany Jewish “Day,” the supporters of the Schles- singer fake strike. came out Friday with contradictory stories which showed very clearly how the Schlessinger clique is try- ing to cover up their sellout of the dressmakers. The “Day” | Said that the strike is settled. ande the “Forward” said that it was not “ressmakers to reject and repudiate settled. this sellout agreement, to organize From these contradictions it is evi- | their shops and to continue the strike dent, however, that in the present agreement that is being signed by the Schlessinger clique and the bosses, one of the basic points won by the Gressmakers through years of strug- gle will be done away with, and that is the minimum wage scale. Insteda, they are camouflaging this sellout with high sounding phrases of “scien- tific” method of settlement and so- called schedule of prices. What the schedules and scientific methods will be, no one knows. In the meantime the dressmakers will bé sent back to the shops with wage cuts. The Schlessinger outfit yesterday. boasted of the fact that the jobbers have agreed to the schedule. but they failed to tell the workers that neither the jobbers nor manufacturers give any guarantees for the priees on the sehedules. The United Front Committee, which is leading the dressmakers in the real strike and is continuing to make shop settlements on the basis | of improved conditions, calls on the! in every shop on the basis of the demands of the United Front Com- mittee. Strikers Halt Eviction The dress strikers in Harlem paused in their picket activities long enough Friday to return the furniture of two families of Negro workers who were evicted by a Tammany marshal. A call came to the United Front Strike headquarters that company union gangsters were harassing pick- ets at a struck shop. A committee of 10 workers went from the strike hedaquarters to investigate, but when they arrived the International thugs had departed. Whereupon the committee of dress strikers discovered that two families of Negroes were be- ing evicted from their homes across the street from the striking shop. The strikers at once rallied the neighbors and the evicted families to the task of returning the furniture to the apartments. Following the reinstatement of the {CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) NEW YORK, Feb. Trade Union Conference Lays Basis for Mass Fight Against Imperialist War 444 Delegates Plan to Intensify Work In War Industries 29.—Concentration on the shops of the heavy war industries, with special emphasis laid on the task of rallying all forces to build the Marine Workers Indus- trial Union to stop shipments of arms and mu- nitions to the Far East war sone—o————————_________.__ this was the keynote of the Trade, ‘rom workers clubs and one came Union Unity League Conference of | both the district T.U.U.C. and the greater New York. which met here|Matlonal Bureau of the T. U. U. L. Saturday and Sunday in the Stuy-|Mifty-seven delegates represented 39 vesant Casino, opposition groups in the A. F. of L. ‘The conference was composed of What marked the conference thru- 444 delegates in all, 99 coming from | OUt was its practical concretness im 76 shop groups representing 24,709 criticism and organizational propos- workers and 230 from unions. leagues als. The most minute details in tac- and trade bodies representing 24,299| tle and stratesy for organizing the members. Forty-nine delegates re. | 'étvidusl shop for strike were odh- presented 21 fraternal organizations; | Sidered and discumsed at greet length, twelve came frem city bodies, four! coonrincED OF Face Twed ) i