The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 7, 1932, Page 1

‘ NC (Section of the Communist International) All Out for “Daily” Tag Days Mareh 11, 12, 13.—Watch For Address of Your Nearest Station Emtered as second-class > at New York, N. Y. under the act of March 2, 1879 matter at the Pust Office CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents “ NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1932. WHOLE SOVIET UNION AROUSED AT JAPANESE WAR PLOT ® C. E. Ruthenberg --- the 4th Anniversary ot His Death W igi fourth anniversary of the death of C. &. Ruthenberg, Communist leader, and stalwart figure in the founding of the Communist Party, U.S. A., and one of the leaders of the Communist Intemational, comes at, a time when war rages in China, when the imperialist bandits prepare to attack the Soviet, Union. Ruthenberg’s life, his leadership in the revolutionary working class movement, contains many lessons of struggle against imperialist war. Ruthenberg led the struggle within the sociailst party against the Hillquits and Bergers—the very same Hillquit who today stands in the forefront of the war preparations against the Soviet Union. During the last World War, Ruthenberg rallied tens of thousands of workers in a revolutionary struggle against war. He exposed the imper- falist nature of the last World War; castigated the role of the social~ cheauvinists in their support of the imperialist war, and mercilessly flayed the socialists who were paying lip-service to “anti-war” activities, whose pacifism was helping imperialists carry on the war and to keep back the fevolutionaryff wrath of the working class. Tn the very midst of the war, Ruthenberg spoke to hundreds of thous- ands of workers, calling for a revolutionary struggle against war. For this he was repeatedly jailed, persecuted. The tradition of Ruthenberg’s leadership in the Communist ranks, in the ranks of the revolutionary working class, is one of a long period of struggle against imperialist war, oth during the last World War and against the imperialists’ preparations tor a new World War, the first skirmishes of which we see now going on in China and at the borders of the Soviet Union in Manchuria. ‘When he was arrested in New York for his Communist activity, Ruth- enberg at his trial in March of 1920 made it one of the main points of his speech to expose the imperialist war preparations, to show the revo- lutionary way out by pointing to the example of Soviet Russia. Using the court as his forum, speaking to thousands of workers, Ruthenberg facing a long jail term, declared to the workers that the imperialist war must be trensformed into a civil war of the working class against the im~ perialist war makers. ‘Today, more than ever, the Communist Party must follow in the path ot Ruthenberg’s long history of revolutionary struggle against war. The day to day agitation and organization against the imperialist war makers, for the defense of the Soviet Union, the building up of the ranks of the Communist Party as the best guaranty of turning the imperialist war into 2, etvil war, is the best tribute the American working class can pay to the memory of its heroic, Communist leader, Charles E. Ruthenberg. Police Forces.and Crime--Some Conclusions from the Lindbergh Case IM the Lindbergh case one conclusion of basic importance for workers in this period of growing repression of working class organization can be drawn. Tt is: That the enoromus police forces—city, county, state and national— do not prevent even the most atrocious crimes. Yet the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, like all other instances of this character, is being utilized to demand the enlarging of the police forces and to extend police powers to picture them as hardworking, heroic defenders of “the whole people.” ‘To the unthinking this may sound well bu the fact is that the un- derworld and its criminal have not and never will be curbed by the police forces of capitalism. ‘These forces are needed by capitalism, and used by it, in the sup- pression of the working class and its struggles. The police forces are simply the legal and organized connection between the outright criminal elements, the capitalist class, and its entire government machinery. Only persons gulled by the capitalist press lip service given to “honest, government,” only the socialist party elements and leaders like Norman ‘Thomas who bolster up the fiction of democracy under capitalism by sep- arating the question of crime and corruption from capitalism, can take seriously the lie that police are the enemies of criminlas. The gangsters of the underworld from time to time create embarrass- ment for their capitalist protectors by some flagrant outrage on capitalist “decency.” This is probably what happened in the Lindbergh case. ‘The ever-growing number of police and the present huge mobiliza- tion of palice forces have not prevented the kidnapping nor have they laid the kidnappers by the heels. But let a strike occur in New Jersey, let us say, against a wage cut in a Standard Oil plant. The workers begin picketing. These “criminals” will be clubbed, gassed and jailed by the score. Some will be shot—as happened in Bayonne, The criminal syndicalism law will be invoked against them. Tt. ‘© will be a special drive against the Communist Party and Com- munists. This has happened in New Jersey and in practically every other state (it is now happening in Kentucky). It occurs even in election campaigns. The police never experience any difficulty in finding the names and addresses of the “criminals” whose expose the murderous role of Amer- ican imperialism—as in the Far East today. They are never at a loss in locating the “criminals” who organize the workers against mass starva- tion and for unemployment insurance at the expense of the capitalists and their government. The police forces have now been “strengthened” by the endorsement of the kidnapper hunt by the leadership of the American Federation of Labor, which ca)’ on all local unions and Cntral Labor Councils to help. the police locate Gindbergh’s son and his kidnappers. How wonderful! And how humane! The hearts of William Green and,Matthew Woll are wrung by the. danger to this one baby—but not. yet have they said one word for government unemployment insurance which would ease a little the misery of the children of the more than 12,000,000 unemployed workers. Sixty per cent of the 13,000,000 children (those of working class families) are undernourished in the United States ( “ay. What of them, Messrs. Green and Woll? M The only country in the world where the children are the special care of the government—where there is and could be no such thing as the kidnapping of a child—is the Soviet Union), a workers’ and farmers’ government. You aid the capitalists of America in thelr attempts to destroy the only working class government in the world. Police preventing crime! Criminals hunting criminals! Any police- man who can track an elephant through four feet of snow, or locate a horseshoe in a plate of soup, can find the Lindbergh baby kidnappers. It is a safe bet that their identity has been known for days. But the question is one of con iling police responsibility—and perhaps the actual physical and political connection with the kidnappers. This is presidential election year—and the gangster elements are needed more than usual. More wage cuts are coming and unemployment is increasing. The tide of working class struggle is rising. Imperialist war has begun. Attacks on the Soviet Union are being prepared. World imperialism is determined to crush the Chinese Revo- lution, led by the Communist Party. The gangsters and underworld elements must be handled carefully. (CONTINUED ON PSGE THRERD |Force Bosses to Hear 32 CLEANING AND DYEING SHOPS STRIKE, Demands;Workers Are Détermined to Win NEW YORK.—The workers of the Berger |Service, Inc. a large cleaning, dyeing and tailoring com- pany, walked “out of their shops Saturday ‘and declared a strike | against a 5 per cent wage cut. The strike has effected |52 shops in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Long Is- land and the 300 workers in these | shops from managers to office boys | have joined the strike. ‘These workers who had received | two cuts of 10 per cent. Fejlowing the last cut the workers organized | committees in the various shops. to | protect themselves against any |fur- | ther encroachment against their liv- | ing conditions. When the third cut | came the rank and file committees | declared 52 shops on strike. | The strikers demand no wage- | jcat, no discrimination against the | strikers and recognition of the shop | committees. The bosses at once got | in touch with the strike committee | | and agreed to settle on the basis of | No wage cut and no discrimination. | The strikers, however, at a meeting | of all the strikers held yesterday at | Irving Plaza Hall decided not to! budge an inch until the bosses agreed to recognize the shop committees.* | The strike is being carried on under | rank and file leadership under the League. have accepted the policy of the T. U.| 3 MORE STRIKE LEADERS | JAILED IN MIDDELSBORO, KY; BUILD UP NM. UL AORED OTe PINE? aa aa | \Youth Organizer, Joe Chandler, Allen John- son, Labor Press Correspondent, and Jim Roberts, Striker, Seized in Raid All Charged With Criminal Syndcalism and | Held Without Bail; Elect Delegates from K: to National Convention of N. M. U. | MIDDLESBORO; Ky., March 6.—Joe Chand-| ler, national youth organizer of the National Miners Union, Allen Johnson, correspondent | of the Daily Worker, and Jim Roberts, strik-| ing miner, were arrested last night on a raid on Robert’s house in Middlesboro. They arc now charged with criminal syndicalism and no bond has been set. | Joe Yeary was arrested in a raid at the same time at the | home of T. Cadle, where two rifles, pistols and considerable N. M. U. literature was confiscated. Simultaneous raids took place in three other houses in Mid- *—- dlesboro, but the occupants in au| Passaic Indoor Mass cases, for whom~ there were war-| Meeting for Int'l rants, were not found. | Wi » omen’s Day,Tues. Scale Committees Meet. | ea Granite Cytters for Jobless Insurance. | The latest A. F. of L. local to rote for unemployment insurance 8 the Concord, N. H. branch of he Granite Cutters International , Association, which at {ts regular meeting held Feb. 18 adopted a | resolution endorsing the workers’ unemployment insurance bill. ATTEMPT 10 GERMAN OFFICIAL AIMED AT USSR: Anti-Soviet Tool Shoots at Him in Moscow An attempt to involve the Saviet | Union with Germany was defeated when Soviet workers seized a man who fired four shots at Dr, Fritz von | Twardoski, the Counsellor of the Ger- | man Embassy at Moscow. | A similar attempt to assassinate the | Japanese Ambassador a few months | ago was instigated by French imperi- | alism working through a Szech dip- lomat who attempted to bribe a Sov- | jet worker to make the attack. | FRENCH PUPPET STATES PREPARE TO JOIN JAPAN IN ATTACK ON U.S.5.R. Developments in Far East Show Danger of Immediate Armed Attack on Soviet Union Workers! Ring the Soviet Union With Your Tron Defense! Smash War Plots of the Bosses BULLETIN. A new anti-war demonstration of Japanese workers amd students ocurred at the Tokio University during the latter part of February. The Japanese police surrounded the University during the demen- stration and made several arrests. The workers’ candidate in the recent Japanese elections, Yoshida, is being kept in custedy at the express orders of the Japanese Minister of Justice. Negro and white workers of Phila-| Japanese imperiglism so far as’ it delphia demonstrated Saturday noon | does not conflict with U. S. imperial- before the Japanese Consulate at | ist interests. Several workers were lubbed and one arrested. In spite Chestnut, demanding a stop to the | © robber war against China and call.|0f the police attack, the meeting ing for the driving out of the coun | continued for 45 minutes, with the Both attempts are clearly aimed at embroiling the Soviet Union in/ |war. The attempt to assassinate the | Japanese Ambassador was intended | to afford Japan the pretext for de- claring war against the Soviet Union. While details are not at hand the| ‘ rowd constantly “increasing. The hay Homes Ch eb ournk | demonstration Was organized by the the Chinese masses and engaging in Philadelphia district of the Commu- a monstrous war provocation against nist Party—the only Party carrying the peaceful Soviet Union. on a real fight against imperialist | war and for the defense of the Chi- Scale committees from the Dean Branch.and Four Mile mines, as well as the King mine, have arranged ne- | guidance of the Trade Union Unity | gotiations with the operators con~ | Passaic. U. L. and have elected. John stuben, |° partial settlement at these mines organizer of the Trade Union Unity | ©" @ basis satisfactory to the miners. Council of Greater New York, as a| The Dean Branch scale committee member.of the strike committee. The} met the operators two days ago. strikers at ithe meeting at Irving Plaza Hall decided to form a per- manent organization of cleaners and dyers in greater New York. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Unorganized Shops to Rally to United PASSAIC, N. J.—International Women’s Day will be observed by a/| | Mass indoor rally on March 8 at 8 | p.m. at Mokray Hall, 159 Fourth St., he Communist” Party: of The strikers throughout | trolling these mines looking towards Passaic and the Joint Committee of the Women’s Councils calls upon all workers, mothers, girls, men and | boys, to demonstrate on International | Women's Day, in answer to the ter- |Tific speed-up and low wages that | After a stormy session the scale com-| Have been put dver on the workers |in the Botany, Gera and Dundee | Mills and in the needle trades sweat- | shops. Only last week another cut of 10 per cent was put over on the | workers in Botany. Women have been made to work night shift, as in the Dundee. Wages are now from $10 to $15 a week. And this is the lot of the women in the Botany, who are engaged in making army cloth for the coming war against the Sov- | Placards carried by the demon-/| nese masses and the Soviet Union. | present atack on the German consu-' strators called for the defense of the | ‘ + |lar agent was no doubt intended to| Chinese masses and the Soviet Union, | _ 1” their advance against the Soviet give the German capitalists a chance | and for a determined struggle by the | Union borders, Japanese troops on to carry on war agitation against the | warking class against the war. plots | Saturday reached the town of Hailin Soviet Union, to bring Germany into | of the imperialists, against the sup- | in Northeastern Manchuria and are \the anti-Soviet front, thus preparing port of U. S. imperialism for the | 1OW Proceeding to Ninguta, about 150 the way for the transportation of French troops across Germany to join in the general imperialist attack planned against the Soviet Union, Japanese war moves and for the withdrawal of United States war- ships and troops from China. ‘The police attacked the demon- | |mfles from the Siberian frontier of | the Soyiet Union. Although these | troop movements towards the Soviet | Union borders have been carried out’ on the pretext of fighting insurgent stration, carrying out the policy of | American imperialism of supporting | (CONTINUED ON PAGE TRREE) | Will Hold Meeting In Perth Amboy on Int'l Women’s Day Enyaged Workers Boo Down The Communist Party and the | A Wm. Green at Phila. Meet newly organized branch of the United | | Refuse to Swallow Hypocritical Phrases; De- | Council of Working Class Women of Perth Amboy, N. J., have arranged a mass meeting for International Wom- Front Dress Strike ae ee) NEW YORK, March 7.—Mass picketing in front of all striking shops will mark the beginning of the fifth week of the United Front Dressmakers’ Strike. The United Front Strike Committee has issued a call to all dressmakers and needle trades workers to report at the office of the Industrial Union, 131 W. 28th St., at 7 a. m.,> aes this morning to picket the striking; Join the United Front today. dress shops, as well as the fur and| Picketing throughout the garment millinery shops which are |also on| center will be strengthened and in- strike. During the week new shops, here- | ments for the shops striking at the tofore unorg&nized, are expected to|Present time. The United Front join the strike. Plans to effect the | Strike Committee has issued a call to walkout of these unorganized shops | a flea oe uae a 5 were completed Saturday. The gen-/ the strike fund. It is absolutely nec- eral organization committee has been | essary to swell the strike fund within strengthened for the purpose of ral-| the next few days in order to assure living the new shops to struggle and success to the strike plans for the it is expected that some of them will «CONTINUED ON PA All Support to Nat’l Tag Days to Save Daily Worker American Marines are shooting down masses of defenseless Chinese who are seeking shelter in the Inter. ational |Settlement in Shanghai. The American fleet is extending its stay in the Pacific Ocean, Ammunition plants are running full blast. It is in this period that the Daily Worker must be used more effectively than ever as the guide in our every day struggle against war. In our every day activities in the shops and factories the Daily Worker is the organizer against robber war. Today—now, is when we need the Daily Work- But just at this time we are never certain er. even one day ahead whether the Daily Worker will appear at all. Comrades renewed activities in the Daily Worker Drive is the only means by which the Daily Worker will be able to raise the money nec- essary to save the Daily Worker. Support the National Tag Days which will take place Friday, Saturday and Sunday, March 11, 12 and 13. Send in all funds collected for the Daily, Worker. Get more donations. Rush in all funda | \ tensified so as to bring about settle- | en's Day, March 8, at 8 p.m. In ad- dition to the speakers there will be some entertainment. The Pioneers will present a sketch and the Hungar- jan Singing Society will sing some | songs. The meeting will take place | at the Workers Home, 308 Elm St. iet Union! Set quotas, start revolution- ary competition, in fight to save Daily Worker. Hoover Refuses to See Mother of Tom Mooney | 2000 Workers Greet Mother Mooney at Rail- | way Station In Washington, D. C. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 5.—“Shut up!” “Sit down, you agent of the Hoover hunger government!” accompanied by a chorus of boos and cat-calls, was the greeting the workers gave to William Green, presi- dent of the American Federa- tion of Labor when he sought to speak to a meeting called Hall here yesterday. Demand Green Shut Up. The meeting was called to sup- WASHINGTON, D. C., March 6.—Mother Mooney was refused entrance into the white house to see President Hoover when she asked the right to present personally a petition de- manding the release of her son, Tom Mooney, framed up and | jailed for 16 years by the California bosses. Two thousand | workers and Mrs. Montgomery, mothe of one of the Scottsboro | boys, greeted Mother Mooney on her arrival in Washington Friady morning. For the past two months Hoover has daily been receiving every banker, stock swindler and speculator who had anything | to say about how to inflate the cur- port the sham campaign of Gov. Pinchot of Pensylvania “in the in- terest of the ynemployed,” and Green was one of the speakers. The Associated Press here reporting the greeting given to Green says “a chorus of boos and hisses which silenced William Green, president of the American Federation of La- bor, enlivened a mass meeting of | labor leaders at Convention Hall today. reen could not be heard for rency so that the workers’ burden? would be increased: he greets William Green, strike-breaker, fascist leader | of the A. F. of L. who has done the Hoover hyngér government masterful service in helping put over wage cuts. But the Wall Street president refused a’ five-minute audience to, Mother Mooney who has behind her the or- ganized force of millions of workers and of tens of millions of unorganized | NEW YORK. — A delegation of 42 workers demanding that Tom Moon- | unemployed workers, men arid women ey, class war prisoner, be released. | some single and some with families eodore C. Joslin, president Hoo-| ®t home were met by over 50 unt- cate secretary and bol we. told | formed thugs and refused admittance Mother Mooney that the President |‘ the Central. Home Relief Bureau, was “too busy to see her.” He said, “hen they came to demand relief. however, she could leaver he peti-| Hundreds of other workers in two tion there. Mrs. Mooney left her | Parades, led by the Downtown and petition. The petition exposed the | Mid-Town Unemployed Councils were frame-up of Mooney and Billings and | Stopped from carrying through a demanded their immedia.e release. espedgpeat march oe vy kegs ae Mother Mooney is touring the |D@CK of the needy families anc pre- country, rallying thousands upon ace for the: unemployed of thousands of workers in a fight to} ‘ 5 One line of workers which started » and ~ free Mooney and Billings, and to de- | tie Hy ated ant Avene Kv mand the immediate release of the 9 | \ halted by the cops at 30th and Lex- Scottsboro Negro boys who face legal Avante: ths. Oiler eteving lynching in Alabama on ® framed-uP | om Soth and Columbus Circle -was (CONTINUED ON PAG THREE) | stopped at 36th and 8th Avenue, and Bureau Wh SDL Axio MBB DLL Cops Bar Way to Relief en Jobless Try to Put Demands told they could go no further. With- |out the masses of workers in front. of the bureau the police felt safe in refysing admjttance to the dele- gation. The mobilization of police |inside and outside the bureau with |many captains and other high rank« ing cops and the refysal to let the | workers mags there indicates the fear of. the hungry masses clutching at the bosses. “The delegation was told to ‘go back and register at your precincts.’ “But we did register at the pre- | cincts, long ago, we want relief now, | we can’t wait ete.” the workers cried out. They were also told that the “Cen~ tral Bureay is only an audit and ac- (OUNTINURD ON PAGH TWO) by labor fakers at the Convention! mand Unemployment Insurance ) Several minutes as the crowd of men and women hissed and hooted and shouted for him to sit down. Youce removed eight persons as | ringleaders. Hundreds of others left when the police warned the audience to keep quiet or leave.” | Green's brilliant answer to the ex~ | posure of the workers of his role as a tool of the bosses was: “I dislike | cows that moo and snakes that hiss.” | He hed nothing to say about his sup- ; port of the wage cutting drive in which Green helped the bosses save | billions at the expense of starving millions of workers. He tried his | best to cover up the fact that the Vancouver national convention of the | A. F. of L. voted, along with the Hoo~ ver hunger government, against un- | employment insurance, and that now, | within the ranks of the A. F. of L. | there is a strong and growing moye- ment among the rank and file for | unemployment insurance. ‘The meeting had been called by the | State Federation of Labor and Cen- tral Labor Union. Beside Green and | Pinchot, a number of rabbis were scheduled to speak along with Bili- kof, head of the Jewish Charities and Senator Costigan. Though the meeting was widely ad- vertised by movies, in the press, by leaflets, open air meetings, radio and so on, tt was @ failure, only 4,000 ap- pearing im 2 hall which holds 15,000. By the time Green, the last speaker on the lst appeared, only a few hun- dred were left in the hall. The stated. purposes of the meeting was to sup- port the passage of the Costigan bill, @ measure providing a few cents of “federal relief.” But in reglity it turned out to be a campaign meeting supporting Pinchot. Pinchot came forth with his usual “radical” phrases forgetting to mention his role in trying to drive the miners in Penn- ¢uring the last strike back The A. P, of L. rank and file com- mittee for unemployment insurance distributed thousands of leaflets in