The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 1, 1932, Page 1

WORKERS OF THE WORLD. UNITE! Da ‘(Section of the Communist International) All Out for “Daily” Tag Days March 11, 12, 18—Watch For Address of Your Nearest Station a Eatered an second-elazs matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1932 CITY EDITION == (VoL IX. N Price 3 Cents JAPANESE DIPLOMAT SAYS WAR ON USSR IS INEVITABLE Stop the Robber War! HE American working class is being prepared for by its rulers for im- perialist war. It is our task to organize the American working class against im- perialist war—for actual struggle against it. The most careful study of the statement of the Central Committee —Stop the Robber War in China—published yesterday, must be made by every member of our Party in order to be able to realize in militant mass action of the American working class the main line of policy of our Party in connection with thewar danger—rapid and effective organ- ization of struggle against American imperialism in defense of the Chi- nese Revolution and the Soviet | Union. The numerous onslaught of Japanese imperialism upon the Chinese masses, its mobilization of white guards and its own army detachments along the Soviet frontier, its constant provocations of the Soviet Union in relation to the Chinese Eastern Railway, etc. are all welcomed by American imperialism and the other imperialist governments. Their “protests” in the face of the invasion of Chinese territory and the massacre of Chinese men, women and children of the working class population in and around Shanghai, are of a purely formal character, or intended to protect their own imperialist interests by warning Japan te confine her activities to war on the Chinese population and attacks on the Soviet Union, Japanese imperialism “is the spearhead of the drive” against the Chinese workers tand peasants, against the widening struggle for libera- tion, against the Chinese Soviets and the Soviet Union. It is our task to tear aside the veil of lies, war preparations under the guise of pacifism, aid to Japanese imperialism under the guise of protest notes,” etc., and to bring home to the American working class the fact that mass struggle against imperialist war is the need of the hour. Into every industry and into the ranks of the 12,000,000 unemployed we must go with our exposure of the robber war in the Far East and the organization of mass struggle against it. Withdraw all American forces from China. Stop the shipments of | munitions. Expel the agents of Japanese imperialism from the United States. Every trade union, every fraternal society, every working class or- ganization must be enlisted in this struggle. Our agitation must be wider and clearer than ever before for the reason that we face today the most. difficult of all tasks of the revolutionary advance guard of the working class—actual struggle against imperialist war. For this reason a mere reading of the Central Committee statement is not sufficient. It must be studied and understood—and brought to every section of the working class in action. The “Death Drive” in Kentucky E call special attention to the news dispatch from Kentucky published yesterday in the Daily Worker. It tells a story of organized and murderous preparations on the part of the coal operators, their fellow capitalists, the press and the various agencies of the beneficiaries of the inhuman exploitation of the Ken- tucky and Tennessee miners and other workers, seldom exceeded in the history of the class struggle in the United States. The “death drive” against the miners nad their militant leadership, against the Coimunist Party and its members, as it is characterized in one of the Knoxville papers, is no mere phrase. ‘The murder of Harry Simms, the kidnapping and flogging of Joe Weber and Bill Duncan, the beatings of attorneys and writers who have tried to aid the miners, the growing mobilization of armed forces and the constant attacks on strikers, relief workers and all who try in any way to fight the starvation and slave conditions in the mine areas— show conclusively the determination of the ruling class and its agents to suppress the struggles of the workers by any and all means. All strike leaders are either in jail or under indictment. For a number of them rewards have been posted—‘dead or alive.” The crim- inal syndicalism law is being used to the limit. The gunmen of the coal operators and the “legal” authorities are one inseparable whole. The fascist terror in Poland, Bulgaria, Italy, etc., the fascist at- tacks on the workers in Germany, are being paralleled in Kentucky and ‘Tennessee. Capitalism determined to hang on to its profits and to drive the working class to whatever level is necessary for this, uses the same methods in all countries. More and more the murderous methods of suppression directed against the Negro masses for generations are being utilized in the South to suppress the struggle of both Negro and white workers. More clearly than ever unity of white and Negro against robbery and oppression is needed and must be brought about through struggles in which our party takes the lead. The Kentucky and Tennessee miners are in the forefront of the American class struggle. The forces against them have been well organized from the very first because the mines are owned for the most part by th biggest capitalists in America—Rockefeller, Morgan, Ford, Tnsull, by steel and railway companies. ‘The hatred of the southern ruling class for “foreigners” has not pre- vented it uniting against southern workers in defense of the interests of these capitalists of the North. ‘ Mobilization of the forces of the working class for the support and defense of the Kentucky miners and their leadership must be the answer to the “death drive” of the capitalists and their allied organizations of murder and suppression. ‘The attack on the Communist Party in the southern coal fields shows that its leadership is recognized by the class enemies of the workers. Tt is our task to build in Kentucky and Tennessee and throughout the entire South a Party deriving such strength from the Negro and white masses that it cannot be uprooted. ‘This is the guarantee that the present miners’ strike will be but the beginning of wide mass struggles. GUARD AGAINST SURPRISE MOVE 10 EVICT STRIKING TENANTS NEW YORK—The 26 evictions, changed Tammany’s plans. ni Mass Meeting Today of All Dressmakers Will Hit A. F. L. Betrayal United Front Strike Spreads to New Shops As Schlesinger Completes Sellout Plans Company Union Puts Over Fake Settlement; Rank and File Denounce Agreement NEW YORK, March 1.—While the Schlesinger gang was putting the final touches on their so-called scientific agree- ments to sell the dressmakers out further wage cuts and unemployment; the United Front Committee spread its mili- tant strike to more shops and laid a basis for new and more wide-spread victories. “his clique and rally to the United ae Pemiining, Da wie Touma week | Front in a huge mass demonstration of the victorious onward march of the dressmakers under the leadership | Be eerie netae found te eas ot ine ters swe cphe,call of the Committee of 50 optimism and determination, Ten | ata members of the In- and the Settlement, Committee was| “FIsht against the wage reduction busy throughout the day considerin: settlement. Don’t return to the shops Sale sisi for Genin: S| under sweatshop conditions. Con- ‘The committee of 50, rank and file | tinue to strike in every shop until you workers of the International, has | 2@ve won higher prices. Sisters and issued a call to all dressmakers to re-| Brothers: roe pudiate the fake settlement that is| “After 2 weeks of strike, being carried on by Schlesinger and our of- {CONTINUED ON PAGE TW) COAL BOSS TERROR FAILS TO HALT CONFERENCE OF STRIKING KY. MINERS Miners Mobilize to Defend Meeting Against Gun Thugs KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 29. — Ninety- three elected delegates representing almost every mine in strike area scores visitors packed to the doors a pool hall in Jellico, Kentucky The pool hall was used for the meeting after county trustees backed down on the use of the school house previously prom- ised. The town was patrolled by carloads of Bell County and Tennessee thugs but the determination of the delegates to go through with the conference at all costs forced the thugs to a fetreat without attempting to smash KNOXVILLE PAPER) "ton Semcon reporting tor the OPENS DRIVE TO situation in the strike, pointing out that the main emphasis must now be placed on strengthening the strike in yesterday for the district strike conference. | Scheduled to be carried through by the city of New York to break rent strikes for the landlords, was not at- tempted this morning. At 733 Arnow Ave., where 11 fam- ilies were to be evicted, and on Long- fellow Ave., between 174th and 176th, where 15 were to be evicted, the workers were ready to resist the evic- tions with a mass battle. Early in the morning the workers began to gather. On Longfellow Ave. it is re- Ported over 2,000 workers were in the streets ready to repeat last Friday's Lattle. Up until 7 p.m. there were no signs of the marshal and police. There tan be no doubt that the militant id unexpected resistance (unex pected to the police) is what has The police department may now be resorting to what they think is a cunning move to catch the workers off their guard. They know that the workers are ready, the Daily carried this news, and may have postponed the evictions until today, thinking in this way to avoid meeting the work- KILL COMMUNISTS ers’ Union, reviewed the changed Lies of Pen Prostitute KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Feb. 29.—Last week the Knoxville press opened a barrage of vi- cious red baiting propaganda which constitutes in effect an open call to lynching all Communists and members of militant unions. The Knoxville Journal is now run- ning a series of feature articles de- claring “More than 150 Communists are here plotting destruction of property and overthrow of homes, churches and all constituted author, ity.” The articles are filled with the vilest lies, taken from the Fish Com- mittee report, plus stupid inventions of a local sob-sister who was fired from the Knoxville Journal last spring for incompetence and is now employed by a group of local red baiters to write anti-Communist slanders for the Knoxville Journal. The articles reveal the greatest fear by the local capitalists of or- ganization by the National Textile Workers Union of the exploited tex~- tile workers. ‘The Communist Party has issued a leaflet exposing those stupid attacks and is preparing a mass meeting, probably on Friday of this week, to ers. They may even attempt the eviction later tonight, as they have done in other cases. This strategy is not fooling the workers. They are’ and will be on their guard, they re- port, ready to resist the evictions as planned and carry on their fight for redicaion in rents, The tenants in these two strikes 1 for all workers in the respective ections to mobilize tomorrow and (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) | further expose the would-be lynchers before the Knoxville working class. Attacks on the Knoxville Workers’ International Relief office continue with two police raids Saturday. The police threatened to close the office and confiscated all W.LR. receipts at hand. With attacks on {he relief appara- tus increasing both in Knoxville and in the strike fleld, the need for in- j tensified collection of relief and de- fense funds throughout the country \ those mines where it ts still effettive, at the same time negotiating indi- vidual settlements with operators. In mines where only a small majority remain on strike the policy must be to get those on strike back to work without blacklisting with the support of the men at work. Greatest attention was given to strengthening the strike committees at the mines and section committees. Every speaker stressed the vital nec- essity of building functioning N. M. U. locals in all mines to lay an or- ganizational basis for future strug- gles. Following the main report, many delegates took the floor to endorse the policy of the N.M.U. and fur- ther concretizing the proposals for future activity. A letter to the conference from the ten comrades in Pineville jail calling for strengthening the strike and a fight to the finish against the U.M.W.A. which is now entering the field sa a major strikebreaking in- strument of the operators aroused the greatest enthusiasm. Joe Chandler, youth organizer of the N.M.U. in opening the conference called on the miners to avenge the murder of Harry Simms by intensi- fied struggle against terror and for the strike demands and by building the N. M. U. The conference adjourned after electing a new strike execulive made necessary by the fact that five mem- bers of the old executive are in jail and warrants are out for eight more. Goincident with the arrest and sen- tencing to fifty days on the chain gang of Harry Jackson. ig imperative, The central relief warehouse at Middlesboro continues to function un- der a guard of twenty-five strikers day and night. The miners declare thugs will not destroy this warehouse without a battle of Meir lives, ©“ DAILY WORKER MUST NOT Suspend The following amounts were re- ceived from February 24th to 29th in- clusive: February 24... $389.83 25... 408.32 26-27... 371.02 Today, Feb. 29... 218.66 Total . . .$1387.83 This means that the paper faces immediate suspension. We will not be able to go back to two pages as be- fore. It will mean no paper until we can reach the average of $1,200 a day. The existence of the Daily Worker rests upon the readers. workers’ or- ganizations and the various workers who are in charge of the Daily Worker throughout the country. Only your immediate answer in funds will save the Daily Worker. NEW TACTICS IN THE HUNGER OFFENSIVE “Article I U. KING THE “GIVE A MILLION JOBS” DRIVE By BILL DUNNE. A new phase of the general drive against the living stand- ards of the American working class has begun in the last three weeks, The “give a million jobs” campaign holds the spot- light for the moment. It is marked by an immense nicrease in the lying pro- paganda of the special government and capitalist publicity agencies regarding “the return of prosperity.” specially de- vised statistics designed to show that “business has turned the corner,” and by a flood of statements from bankers and business men welcoming the Wall Street-Hoover “redonstruc- 'ULS, ORDERS NEARLY ENTIRE NAVY TO PACIFIC OCEAN Soviet Union Demands Explanation of Japa- nese Mobilization on Korean Border of Siberia Foreign Observers in Manchuria Admit Japa- nese Are Creating War Base Against the U.S. S. R. LATEST DEVELOPMENTS Japanese Consul declares war with Soviet Union inevitable. Foreign observers admit that Japan is converting Manchuria into military base in preparation for attack on Soviet Union. Soviet Union demands explanation of Japanese concentration on Korean border of Siberia and Japanese support of White Guards in Manchuria. Kuomintang prepares joint betrayal of Shanghai defense and war on revolutionary Chinese masses in the Soviet districts. United States declared ready to loan Kuomintang $50,000,000 for war on Soviet districts. United States, British and French imperialists push Japanese proposals for truce at Shanghai and for international control of Shanghai as key to Yangtze Valley riches. United States sends entire navy to the Pacific. BULLETIN. The United States government has ordered virtually the entire U. S. Navy to the Pacific. Only a few submarines are to be left in the Atlantic. Units of the Atlantic fleet have sailed to join the scout- ing force commanded by Vice-Admiral Arthur L. Willard in the San Pedro-San Diego area. In the meantime, the U. S. battle fleet is at Hawaii participating in a convenient joint naval and army maneuver. The U. S. Asiatic Fleet has reinforced U. S. warships on the Yangtze River, where they are actively operating against the Chinese Red Army. The Chinese defenders of Shanghai yesterday drove the Japanese back from the outskirts of the Chapei district in a surprise attack. The Japanese staged a counter-attack and are reported to have re- gained most of the lost ground. Geneva dispatch report that the Kuomintang leaders have agreed. to the proposals of the Japanese, United States, British and French imperialists for a truce at Shanghai. . The Soviet Union demanded an explana- tion of the Japanese government on the mass- ing of Japanese troops on the Korean border of the Soviet Union and the assistance given by the Japanese to the anti-Soviet White Guard elements in Manchuria. The Soviet Union pointed out that the use of the Chinese Eastern Railway for strategic objects would be in violation of the treaties between Japan and the Soviet Union. The struggle of the Soviet Union for peace is again em- phasized in the permission given the e——————.—______________ Japanese for a limited troop move-| #5 asain preparing to override Rus- tion program.” ‘ That this whole program is one of inflation, from the $2,000,000,000 authorized for the Finance Recon- struction Corporation—for the benefit of banks, railways and industrial cor- porations—to the project for issuing of an unlimited number of “baby bonds,” to be distributed through the banks, and intended to coax out have not yet been able to pilfer through the unprecedented number of bank and business failures—and will raise the cost of living for the working population, is “obvious. It is a decisive further step in placing the burden of the crisis on the masses. Side by side with this program, while unemployment increases, wage cuts continue, and mass misery grows with active preparations for war against the Soviet Union and the Chinese workers peasant revolution, coming more and more into the open under the guise of “protecting the open door policy” in China, there has been begun, on a gigantic scale, what is probably the biggest and most brazen fraud of the whole crisis pe- thod—the so-called campaign to “cre- ate a million jobs,” or “to put a million men back to work,” as it is variously described. It is eminently fitting that this scheme for diverting the attention of the millions of unemployed and part time workers from the anti- working class nature of the whole Wall-Street Hunger program should be headed by the American Legion whose strikebreaking policy and fas- cist role coincides with its official betrayal of the bonus demands of the rank and ‘ilo of its unemployed membership. It is equally fitting that this fraud (CONTINUED ON PAGE THKBE) . hc eta from hiding the savings the bankers | 'G0 TO CAPITAL 10 FIGHT BILLS ON FOREIGN BORN Bill Would Legalize Expulsion of Foreign Born Communists WASHINGTON, D. C.—Armed with a mass of evidence to prove system- atic, widespread governmental dis- crimination against the foreign born, the five delegates of the National Committee for Protection of the For- eign Born arrived here today pre- pared to fight against the discrim- inatorv proposals embodied in the Hopkins and Bachman immigration bills. The bills, which would make more stringent the old law excluding anar- chists from the United States and which would legalize the expulsion of all foreign-born Communists, are condemned by the Committee for Protection of the Foreign Born as a death blow to the political rights of all workers. ‘The representatives of the organ- izations were to point out at |the hearings to be held today on the two bills that both will be freely used in preventing the activity of foreign- born workers in labor and political struggles and in punishing those who may be “guilty” of revolutionary ac- tivity of any kind, Every shop, mine and factory a fertile field for Daily Worker sub- me SS TEST ment over the Chinese Eastern Rail- way. In spite of the Japanese assur- ances that they do not have any in- tention of attacking the Soviet Union @ report yesterday from Shanghai clearly shows that the Japanese intend to pursue their provocative war moves against the Soviet Union. The dispatch reports: “Word from Harbin that Japan sian objections by using the Chinese Eastern Railway in an eastward drive through Manchuria to the Soviet frontier today serves to confirm alarming reports that are being spread by Japan's White Russian allies in Manchuria, “These agitators declare that before the end of 1932 Japan will (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Ford and Munitions Plant Delegates at the Detroit Anti-War Conference 239 Delegates Representing 10,000 Members Decide to Prepare United Front Conference DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 28.—Two hundred and thirty-nine delegates attended the preliminary Anti-War Conference called by the Communist Party on Friday, February 26th. One hundred and twenty-four mass or- ganizations were represented, totaling about 10,000 members. Delegates from the Anti-War Committees in the Ford plant and one munition plant were present and delegates from a number of Anti-War mass meetings. ‘The conference revealed that the initial step in organizing a huge anti-war movement in Detroit have already been made, series of mass meetings held, two demonstrations organized, hundreds of resolutions passes and tens of thousands of leaflets distributed. ‘The conference unanimously adopt- ed the resolution presented by the District Committee of the Communist Party calling for a broader move- ment centering its activity on the factories manufacturing war muni- tions, organizing Anti-War Commit- tees, holding of youth, women and language anti-war conferences and mass meetings as preliminary steps to a broad mass conference to be held on Sunday, March 20. The conference further set March 25th for a huge mass demonstration and elected a provisional committee of 25 to make preparations for the demonstration end ¢he mass con- 4 ference. ‘The Anti-War-Ford Hunger Marek mass meeting on March 6th at which William 2. Foster will speak, was endorsed by the conference. The conference adopted a resolu- tion which reads in part: “In order to broaden and deepen the Anti-War movement, the workers’ organizations must elect anti-war committees and create anti-war come mittees in the factories and especially in these factories where war muni- tions are being made. The entire working population must be involved in the Ajiti-War movement which must be thoroughly organized and aroused. ‘The Provisional Committee elected by the preliminary Anti-War Con- ference calls upon all workers’ or- ganizations, factory groups, mass meetings, and anti-war committees to elect three delegates to a broad united anti-war conference called for Sun- day, March 20 at 2 p. m. Withdraw American battleships and troops from China. % ATTENTION—ALL UNITS One comrade from each Unit should be seut to the Dally Worker Conference on Sunday morning, March 6, at 11 o'clock, at the Workers’ Center, 2nd floor. This conference will discuss matters vital to the life of the Daily Worker. DISTRICT SECRETARIAT. ey aap mc NI | AEE? }