The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 15, 1932, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, Five Million Workers in Germany Vote for Soviet Way Out NEW YORK.—The Communist Party of Germany gained $00,000 workingclass votes in the presidential elections over the vote cast in 1930. President Hoover and all the forces of reaction in the Uni- ted States joined with the Socialist party of this country in joyously greeting the large vote in the presidential elections held Sun- day given to President von Hinden- burg, general of the Kaiser, who sent millions of German workers to their death for the glory of German im- perialism. The American capitalist press vere sympathetically approved of the large vote given to the fas- cists, but declared their faith in von Hindenburg, Bruening and the social- ists in the preserving of the huge | investments of American capitalism ip Germany, and in their ability,| through fascist decrees, to put over) @rastic wage slashes for the German werkers, to“maintain German cap- italism. Great surprise was expressed in Washington at |the fact that the Communist Party of Germany did not increase its vote even more than it did. The Communist Party gain- ed 300,000 votes above the votes cast for Communism in the 1930 Reich- stag election. In the last presidential election in 1925 the Communist. can- didate Thaelmann, received 1,871,815; in the election last Sunday, Thael- mann received 4,982,079. The com- bined Communist votes in 1930 were 4,490,000. ‘The American capitalist press par- ticularly stressed the fact that they were grateful because the lies and demagogy of the German socialist leaders were able to lead the socialist workers to vote for von Hindenburg, the choice of British, American and French capitalism, The Associated Press dispatch from Berlin declares: “Fears had been expressed in some quarters that the socialists might dis- obey party instruction and vote for the Communist Thaelmann instead of yon Hindenburg. These fears were shown to be unfounded. Social De- mocracy gave an excellent example of discipline by voting for a man whose philosophy of life runs counter to theirs but whose honesty and in- tegrity they respect.” The same idea was voiced in the white house by officials close to the hunyer president Hoover. The New York Times Washington correspon- dent quoted a “spokesman” of Hoover as being quite delighted with: the socialist support to von Hinderburg and the failure of the great mass of German workers in the socialist party to vote for the Communist candidate. The Times said: “Surprise was expressed by some officials over the failure of the Com- munist candidate, Ernst Thaelmann, to poll a larger vote.” The New York Times goes on to praise the socialist leaders for their ability to put over the von Hinden- burg-Bruening branch of fascism by raising a cry against Hitler: “The ‘iron front’ is made up prin- cipally, of socialists and Dr. Bruen- ing’s Catholic Centre party. The socialists had a hard row. to hoe. Their support of a government that cuts wages was expected to cost them heavily in workingclass votes. . Again, the Socialist-Catholic alliance behind the Bruening government ‘was somewhat incongruous, but it’ brought, von Hindenburg mighty close to a complete victory on the first ballot.” Since von Hinderbur lacks 1 per cent of half of the total vote cast, another election is !to be held on April 10 in which a plurality of the yotes over the next highest party elects the candidate, and Hindenburg is expected to win the election with very little difficulty. ‘The total votes of leading candi- dates were as follows: von Hinden- burg, 18,661,736; Hitler (fascist), 11,- 338,571; Thaelmann (Conimunist) 4,982,079. The total vote cast was 37,660,377, with Duesterberg, of the Nationalist Party —a section of the fascists—receiving 2,557,876 votes. No details of the voting by dis- tricts has been published yet. ‘Though von Hindenburg is acclaim- ed by the imperialists of the world for his “yictory,” and because, with socialist help, he has bolstered up the morale and confidence of capit- alism, the capitalists realize that the economic crisis is shrapening in Ger- many and that greater mass strug- gles of the workers are preparing. This was brought out sharply by the financial crisis of the Swedish match trust with which German cap- italists have close connections .The New York Evening Post cable from Germany, reporting the views of the German capitalists regarding the election, said: “The German Bourse (stock ex- change) and banking cricles were de- lighted at the outcome of the elec- tion, although the financial atmos- phere was depressed at the suicide of Ivar Kreuger (head of the Swedish inatch trust).” While the socialists make a great to do about Hitler as an opposition to von Hindenburg, the capitalist papers admit that there is little that separates the two. “Hitler was dis- posed to agree to prolonging von Hindenbure’s term without a con- test,” writes the |New York Times Berlin correspondent, Frederick T. Birchall. In spite of Hitler's declarations of preparing to defeat Hindenburg at the elections on April 10, the forces of Hitler will again “prolong” the regime of von Hindenburg-Bruening, with its borrowing of fascist decrees from Hitler himself. The outcome of the election, as many of the Amer- ican capitalist papers admit, will be a closer alliance between von Hin- denburg and the fascists, against the Communist, as a prelude to greater attacks against the German workers. Ford Worker, Eye-Witness to Massacre, Writes of Murders A Ford worker has written the Daily Worker one of the most revealing and graphic ac- count of the murder of the four unemployed workers by Ford gunmen at the River Rouge plant last Monday. This work- er, not connected with any or- ganization, tells how the cops came running out saying they had instructions to “shoot to kill” the workers. The letter in full follows: As I am a Ford worker, and an eye-witness of the shooting and murder taking place at Ford riot, and as I wrote ot the Detroit News asking them to publish my letter of telling the truth as it is, they would not do it, and after seeing the headlines in the Daily Worker about the Ford - Murphy police slaughter, I have decided to write the Worker telling what I have seen. As Twas about to enter the gates could not go turther. I am writing this letter so the public will know our government of- ficials will frame up murder charges on innocent workers when the po- lice done the murdering themseuves. No policernan killed, which is one of the most outrageous things I had ever seen. I belong to no or- ganization but would testify in de- fense of the workers for a crime they did not commit. Terre Haute Youth Protest Vagrancy Law At Office of Mayor TERRE HAUTE, Ind., March 14.—A Youth Committee, organized by the Young Communist League, paid a call of protest to the hypocritical Mayor (Rosey) against the so-called “Vagrancy Law,” which has served as an excuse for the harassing of Jobless young workers. The mayor refused action, but the Young Com- munist League plans continued fight until the law is abolished. “Of late, the man in the street has again been terrified by the words: ‘Dictatorship of the proletariat,’ Web and good, gentlemen, what does this dictatorship look like? Look at the Paris Commune. That was the dicta- torship of the proletariat.”—Engels, Preface to the third edition of Marx's “Civil War in Franen.” Krueger-Tol Crash Shakes Internat] Financial Centres (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED the Swedish ambassador in Parisinto| secret session yesterday in an effort to devise some method of concealing the real depth of the crash. In Sweden, the Kreuger bankruptcy has hit the industrial and financial capitalists of that country with the force of a national bankruptcy. How closely the bankruptcy of Kreuger and ‘Toll is tied up with the Swedish government was made clear by the announcement that the National Bank of Sweden had Joaned the Swedish Match Trust over $26,800,000. It will be impossible for the Swedish National Bank to regain this money, inasmuch as almost the entire cap- ital of Krouger gpd Toll is tied up in frozen assets, being in the form of loans to such bankrupt and near bankrupt countries as Germany, Hun- gary, Roumania, Ecuador, Latvia, Esthonia, Poland, Greece and a num- ber of other central European and South American countries. The German government alone owes the Kreuger cartel over $237,- 800,000. Hurried preparations have been made for a run on the Kreuger controlled Polish American Bank in Warsaw. This is the bank through which the transaction for a loan to the Polish government of $40,000,000 was made in return for the granting to Kreuger of the national match monopoly. Most of this money was employed in military preparations for war against the Soviet Union, of which Kreuger was a bitter enemy and against whom he carried on the most vicious campaign of lies and slander, especially in connection with the campaign against the “dumping” of Soviet matches, ‘The first sale of Kreuger and Toll bonds on the New York Stock Ex- change were made at a price 12% points below the price offered Sat- urday before the suicide of Kreuger became known. This tremendous drop took place despite the fact that the governors of the Stock Exchange had attempted to maneuver an ar- tificial opening price. Stocks of the International Match Co. dropped 5 points, while bonds of the same com- pany maturing in 1947 dropped 6 points. All along the line a de- pression in security and stock prices took place. The full effect of the Kreuger bankruptcy has not yet taken place, because the full extent of the tie-up of the Kreuger cartel with other firms and national gov- ernments has not yet been made public. As more details of the Kreuger bankruptcy reveal the world-wide echoes of the crash, the utter im- Possibility of capitalism organizing itself or escaping the powerful blows of the crisis becomes ever clearer. The bankruptcy of Kreuger and Toll rips the veil off the lie that the de- velopment of international cartels, of which Kreuger and Toll was one of the largest, can do away with the Ford-Murphy gunmen: police at the Unemployed demonstra- tion March 7. recovery of the wounded comrades, NEW YORK.—Dozens of workers organizations continue to wire their protests to Murphy, Ford and the gov- ernor of Michigan against the brutal murder of the unemployed workers. The International Labor Defense of Roxbury, Mass., wired a protest. The “SISU,” club of the Labor Sports Union in Worcester, Mass., sent its protest, ee. PONTAIC, Mich.—Two hundred workers gathered in the headquarters of the Trade Union Unity League 9414 Bagley St., to protest against Ford and Mayor Murphy who sent their police and to shoot down the jobless workers who dare tao protest against starvation. The workers who came from dif- ferent section of Pontiac on foot in coldest freezing weather to hear about the Ford Massacre, were very angry when they were told by the speakers that Joe York was among the killed by Ford and Mayor Murphy's police. Five young workers who heard Joe York two weeks ago speaking to a group of young workers in the same hall joined the Young Communist League to continue the fight for over- throwing the capitalist system of so- ciety and establishing of a Workers and Farmers Government. Seven workers joined the Communist Party. The secretary of the International Labor Defense presented a protest re- solution to be adopted by the two hundred workers to be sent to gov- ernor Brucker protesting against the murder of 4 jobless workers by the police at Ford River Rouge Plant. 'Two resolutions were presented by the Communist Party of Pontiac at this meeting to be adopted by the workers to be sent to Mayor Murphy and Ford, protesting against the murder of four workers and demanding the release of . the four unemployed workers to Manchuria. periodic convulsions of capitalism by economic crises. Especially does the “socialist” theory of “ultra-imperial- ism” stand exposed as another lying device of the “socialists” to prevent the working masses from struggling for the overthrow of capitalism. According to this theory, capitalism in the form of a number of such huge international cartels could escape crises and be peacefully transformed into socialist society, YOUNG NEGRO FACES 7 ~YEAR TERM ON FRAMEUP MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—Demon- strations throughout Minnesota will take place on March 18, for the re- lease of Ernest McDuffy, 22 year old Negro, sentenced to seven years im- prisonment in the St. Cloud. Minn., reformatory on a framed charge of “mistreating a white girl.” On the same day, a delegation of workers af- filiated with the International Labor Defense will present a petition for was packed to overflowing. Police did not dare enter the hall, and detectives who were sent in to arrest the workers’ leaders, did not succeed. ‘Thousands marched from the Arena to Ferry Hall where the bodies of the dead workers were ly- ing in state. - Rudy Baker, district organizer of the Communist Party of Detroit, was given a tremendous and enthusiastic ovation when he appeared on the platform. The detectives in the hall did not dare to arrest him. The workers unanimously adopted the following demands: 1. No suppression of the rights of workers, the right to free speech, the the right to demonstrate, the right to organize in unions. 2 Not bullets but unemployment relief! Immediate jobs and unem- ployment insurance furnished free by the government to all workers! 3. Immediate and unconditional re- lease of all workers arrested in con- nection with the Ford Hunger March. 4. Punishment for those guilty of the massacre, McDufty’s release to the governor of the state. Over 7,000 signatures have already been collected. McDuffy was sentenced in Anoka in a trial lasting three minutes. No witnesses testified. McDuffy was told by a “liberal” lawyer and a garage owner of the town, both posing as friends, that he must plead guilty or face a long prison term and possible lynching. Both knew he was in- nocent, They told him he would be paroled after a year in the reforma- tory. Investigators have discovered that the few Negroes living in Anoka were terrorized. McDuffy and others had been subjected to frameup plots be- fore but they had fallen through.” Red Builders, help get subscriptions. THE WESTERN WORKER A fighter to organize and lead our struggles in the West _ RAISE FUNDS! 52 Issues $2 BUILD IT! 26 Issues $1 SUBSCRIBE NOW! 13 Issues 50c NAME voccecsesecrsersnssesssecessereses BECCE .. ser tecreeseeensnsees . CltY ve ccendeee oe Elate . Western Worker Campaign Committee 1164 MARKET STREET, San Francisco, Calif. 5 Abolition of all Ford factory police and spies and immediate discharge of all factory police and spies. 6. Indemnity to be pald to the fami- lies of all murdered workers by Ford and the cities of Detroit and Dear- born, ‘The hall was decorated in red, with hundreds of banners and placards calling on the workers to increase their struggles. the Ford plant, was the first speaker. David Gray, a worker wounded .at Another speaker was Alfred Goetz, whom the police are trying to frame up. He read a message from Schmies, calling on the workers to build up the Auto Workers Union. Nydia Barker, of the Young Communist League, told of the heroic struggles of Joe York, murdered of the ¥. C. L. A big ovation greeted the brother of Joe Work when he was introduced. He called on the workers not to weep over thelr terrible losses, but to con- tinue the work dropped by the fallen comrades, to speed up the struggle against hunger and war, and to build the ranks of the Young Communist League and the Communist Party. A Negro worker spoke calling for @ united struggle of white and black. On the platform were delegations from Chicago, Cleveland, Pontiac, To- ledo, and other cities. Bill Gebert, istrict organizer of the Communist Party of Chicago, spoke. Many workers joined the Commu~ nist Party and the Auto Workers Union. ‘ SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 14.—Six thousand members of the KHARKOV, U.S.S.R., March 11. the Kharkov tractor plant have adopted the followin tion of protest against hte murder of four hungry We hope for @ quick ! DETROIT, Mich.—Over 10,000 Detroit workers crowded in and around Arena Gardens on Friday, the day before the mass funeral, to attend the protest meeting against the murder of EW YORK, TUESDAY, 112° """ 15, o232 AMERICAN WORKERS IN| SOVIET TRACTOR PLANT BRAND FORD MASSACRE, Protests Continue to Pour in Upon Henry Ford and His Detroit Mayor Murphy American w¢ “We Americans working in the Kharkoy tractor plant ex-| ' ic press the deepest protest against the | cold-blooded murder. comrades murdered by the Detroit | intensify our work for the building cd up of a classlass, socialist socie joining our ranks with the Inte tional Labor Defense to help the in-| and protest vigorously against thei ternational revolutionary movement.” . . ° Responding in militant protest against the savage mur- der of unemployed workers in Detroit by the Murphy-Ford} gunmen, workers throughout the country are voicing their indignation and determination to spread and build up the work- | ers’ movement to demand unemployment relief. the arrested persons. The workers pledged themselves to organize another demonstration to County Court House in Pontiac, where two workers were beaten by the police and arrested for protesting agains misereable 75 cents a week per person handed out by the Oakland County Poor Commission and demanding $2 ‘a week per person to be paid in cash. * 500 Protest in Newark NEWARK, N. J.—Five hundred workers of Newark attended a mass ‘protest demonstration at Military Park in the heart of the city against the killing of four unemployed workers in Dearborn by Henry Ford and his henchmen. In spite of the cold weather and a bitter wind the speakers received spirited applause whenever Mr. Ford and the police were denounced for their brutal tac- tics against the workers. A resolution of protest and con- demnation was passed by the mass meeting holding Ford directly re- sponsible for the cold-blooded murder of the four workers in front of his gates. Many signatures were secured in the driv efor the presentation of the Unemployment Insurance Bill on May 9th. The Socialist Labor Party here is taking up the cry of Ford, Murphy and the boss press, Verne L. Rey- nolds, one of their leaders, saying that Foster incited the “riot in which four were killed in Detroit.” Span lee In Passaic, N. J., a mass demon- stration March 8, International Wo- men’s Day, protested the massacre of jobless workers by Ford. They de- manded the immediate release of the arrested workers, and wired their pro- test to the governor of Michigan. . at the River Rouge plant by Ford’s gunmen. Many thousands could not enter the hall which PRIS i Ok Sig Ri Cin workers at an overflow meeting of the Council on Saturday night. In- dignation of the workers against this cold-blooded shooting is run- ning high. Another mass demon- stration will be held here in a few days. MILWAUKEE, Wis.— Hight hun- dred workers at an election campaign rally in German House, and 300 more at Cleveland Ballroom expressed their indignation and protest against the Ford-Murphy murders and declared: “We pledge our solidarity to our De- troit comrades in their struggle a- gainst the program of hunger and terror of the bosses.” SEATTLE, Wash—A mass meet- ing of workers at Ingram Hall here passed a stirring resolution of pro- test against the Ford-Murphy but- chery which resulted in the death of 4 workers. “The workers will con- tinue to struggle against imperialist war, against starvation and hunger, wage cuts, unemployment, despite the terror of the boss government and the police,” said the resolution. Pee wer ASHBY, Mass.—The Young Com- munist League here pledged to con- tinue the struggle of Joe York and Bussell, two Y.C.L. members murder- ed by Ford-Murphy gunmen in Dear- born, Mich. A similar resolution, calling on all young workers to join the rahks of the Y.C.L., was passed by the Fitch- bury, Mass., Y.C.L. Waid. om YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. — Police smashed the Youngstown protest meeting against the Detroit murders by Ford's thugs Saturday at St. Col- umbo's Church soup kitchen although a permit was granted. However, speakers suddenly appeared on top of an abandoned house and spoke to the workers. The police, surprised and unable to climb to the top of the house, had to let the meeting con- tinue unmolested. The police tried to drive the work- ers away telling them that all who remained and listened would not, be given any relief at the soup line. Ne- gro workers were especially singled out by the cops. Despite this terror, hundreds of workers lined the streets and listened to the speeches. The voice of the speakers carried for many blocks and workers came on their porches and opened windows to hear the protest speeches against. the Detroit murder of the unem- ployed, We, the workers in mass meeting assembled, under the auspices of the Unemployed Council of Rock Island,” reads a resolution of the Unemployed Council of Rock Island, Ill, “do most emphatically protest the brutal terror now being carried on against the | We pledge to}! at ay elite ds ail -~ Page Thre Resolution Adopted hy Ssthonian Workers main re of Cl t Uninc Partition of the Sc Colonial St membership mer York. In Jemanding i independence: Philippine Islands, protest! the murder of 3,000 work Salvador, ugainst the e of Wain and the arrest of militant workers by the Guater | overnment, m Tn view of the intensified capital- | 1d American Imperial- ist offer against the workin: class at home and the toiling masses | in the colonies, the Anti-Imperialist | League of tne U. 8. calls on a’) or-| ganizations to take the same steps, | as have been taken by Esthonian | Workers Club. Flood the office of Secretary Stim- | son and the diplomatic agents of the | colonial puppet. governments in the country with your protests! Mudel re- solutions, as well as other detailed | information can be obtained from the | Anti-Imperialist League (Room 536, | 799 Broadway, New York City) Copies of the resolutions adopted | should be sent to the League for their | information. U.S. Imperialists Push Plan for Boycott Against Peaceful Soviet Union to be ucts of Soviet Russia from d States will be presented to Secre Mills on Monday by representatives of more than 100 organizations, Senator Oddie, Re- publican, of Nevada, said today.” The ban aga s products is being sought, under r text that dentt there i bor” in meantime, In ‘0 pa hes an exposu: of ced labor in—not the §& Union—but imperialist United States The Whip says fi “According to eye-wittnesses to the incident the (Negro) women prisoners were brought in the city limits (Jacksonville, Fla.) from the county prison in a truck clad in prison stripes. They were forced to unload heavy timber in the plain view of passersby for most of the e arm connection with the admissions of Washington officials, jas reported in Saturday’s Daily Worker, of Japanese war moves t the Soviet Union anghai dispatch reports that the k sent sixty transports to that city for the remova; now in South China, Thes¢ morning and were then transferred to the House of Detention here, where they were made to dig post holes and plant posts under heavy armed guard.” The ¢ which are se ame United States imperial- ing to boycott the ul Soviet Union are supplying ions to the Japanese for their war agair the Chinese and for their preparations for an early attack against the Soviet Union, This was admitted in Con- | gress on Saturday by the anti-Soviet, Anti ng-clacs Representative sh, who stated that more than 000 tons of nitrates had been ipped to the Japanese between n. 17, 1932, and Feb. 28. The Los Angeles Times reports that the Western Borax Co. at Mo jave is doubling the capacity of its | Plant in order to fill large orders | from Japan and European countries, | Last week fifteen craloads of borax was shipped to Japan. The Santa Fe Railroad is reported to be receiy- ing an average freight revenue of | $1,000 a day for shipments from the borax fields. Borax is used for faigh explosives. — Book on Hoover Reveuks Him As Murderer of Workers (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONB) jack with the single-jack sys- tem—where one man virtually | does the work of two—and when the union refused, strike breakers were imp°rted. | Later, in 1902, when Hoover| returned to Australia as resi- dent manager for Bewick Moreing Company, in charge of 25 of the big-| fiscated by the Soviet government’ law if they so incline. Call Giant Protest M gest producing mines in West Aus- tralia, he was instrumental in break- ing the unions by importing low paid Italian workers. In one of the Hoo- ver-managed mines the only British | worker was a tool sharpener. So de-| termined were Hoover's efforts to fill) his mine with low paid workers that the Australian Parliament investi- | gated the matter. Endangered Workers’ Lives | It was brought out at this hearing | that Hoover customarily tried to cut costs by skimping in safety devices. Despite repeated warnings by the Australian Department of Mine In-| spection, he neglected to timber his | mines properly and in other mines} the stopes were higher than allowed | by law. The Australian gvoernment on several occasions had to threaten | to close down the mines in order to compel Hoover to obey safety regu- lations and in at least one mine un- der his control he had not timbered | the mine properly after three warn- ings. Men Creaper Than Lumber | In the Chinese Mining and Engin- eering Company's coal mine at Kaip- ing, near Tien Tsin, China, Hoover piled up huge profits for his fellow stock-holders by employing Oriental laborers at from 10 to 20 cents a day. Here, too, it is a matter of record | that Hoover neglected to itmber the | mine properly, and in a paper which | he read in 1902 before the British Institute of Metallurgy he declared “The disregard for human life per- mits cheap mining by economy in| timber and the aggrieved relatives | are amply compensated by the pay- ment of $30 (Mexican) for each man lost.” “putting it plainly,” Mr. Liggett | comments, “the above statement can only mean that Mr. Hoover, as man- ager for the British promoters, found it cheaper to pay $30 Mexican when- ever Chinese laborers were killed by cave-ins than he did to timber his mines properly. The amazing cal- | lousness of this statement would be | incredible were it not for the fact that the author has a photostatic | copy of Mr, Hoover's printed address.” Czarist Police Helped Hoover ‘der | “The Rise of Herbert Heover" re-} lates how some 233 Russian workers were killed and several hundred wounded in 1921 when they gathered to demand shorter hours and higher wages at the Lena Gold Fields in Siberia, a property in which Mr. Hoo- ver was interested. The workers were not threatening, but the mine man- agement called in Cossacks who open- ed fire on the workers. Later more than 3,000 men, women and children were evieted from their homes and compelled to leave the district. Mr. Liggett asserts that a group of South African mines in which Her- bert Hoover was interested imported 53,000 Chinese coolies in 1904—short- ly after the close of the Boer War— because the white Jaborers in South Africa demanded |higher wages to meet the increased cost of living. The workers in Detroit and vicinity, “We hold Henry Ford guilty of the | brutal murder of Joe Yark and the shooting down in cold blood of other workers during a peaceful demon- vtration.” Copies to Henry Ford, Governor of Michigan, Mayor, of Detroit and imported coolies were indentured for a term of three years and were kept in compounds as vidtual prisoners until hteir contracts expired Why Hoover Hates the Soviet Union Mr. Liggett also relates that during the World War certain mines in Rus- sia, in which Mr. Hoover was in- terested in partnership with the ‘Ro- manoff family, employed 3,000 Aus- trian prisoners of war as forced la- borers. Later these mines were con- and Mr. Liggett declares this explains Hoover's bitter animosity towards the existing Russian government. “The Rise of Herbert Hoover” is a profusely illustrated book of 400 pages ant practically every assertion is sub- stantiated by documentary evidence. Mr. Liggett declares “I will stake my reputation upon the accuracy of every essential fact “and virtually challenge the president and his supporters to dispute his chrages—“in a court of eet March 18th In“ Chicago Against War, Terorr {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED tthe Japanese consulate in the Tri- bune Tower on Saturday, March 12. “More than five thousand workers peacefully assembled on Michigan Avenue to protest against the robber imperialist war of Japan against the Chinese masses which as is openly admitted is also an open attempt to attack the Soviet Union on the Far East through Manchuria. While Ja- pan is the spearhead of this attack against the Soviet Union it has the support of all the other imperialist powers, particularly United States imperialism, whose leadership in the anti-Soviet drive has been openly demonstrated many times (Stimson note 1929; mon-recognition; em- bargoes on certain Soviet products, instructions to banks to withhold cedits, etc.). While differences exist among the imperialists particularly Japan and the U. S. A. it is not difference of principle or methods but purely a difference as to who shall have the right to plunder, rob and exploit the Chinese masses and the resources of China the most. While the Chicago workers gath- ered peacefully, and the police and the newspapers were previously noti- fied, hundreds of police on motor- cycles, horses and foot savagely at- tacked the workers, shooting.at them and wielding clubs and rubber hose. Some workers were severely inj. re, many hurt and twenty-seven were arrested. The police in their savage frenzy shot and clubbed wildly, in- | cluding many bystanders and even ‘ome of their own rai Many eye witnesses state that when the police | fired low, tthe bullets ricocheted off the sidewalk hitting many, Only, the day previous a similar avag@@Pattack was made on seven tiuousand workers gathered on the northwest side at Humboldt Park demonstrating for adequate relief the crowd and many were hurt, some seriously. ‘This shows how the police of Chi- cago under the instructions of Cer- mak and the big Chicago bosses an- swer peaceful demonstrations with bullets and terror. This is part of the policy of the Wall Street Govern- ment of war -and, starvation, The bosses and their Government refuse unemployment relief but vote billions for war preparations and loans to the railroads and other gusiness in- terests but not a cent for unemploy- inent relief, thus condemning milHons to slow starvation, In Kentucky in the coal mines owned by Insull, Ford and Morgan, strikers are attacked and Harry Simms is imurdered, In Detroit, Ford orders his police thugs to shoot workers, ki'dng four. ‘The next day in Chicagu, Cermak joins hands and his police shoot into workers—on one day while demonstrating for more re- lief and unemployment ixsurance and on the next day his police come to vhe Mayor of Dearborn, the assistance of the representatives Here also police shot and attacked | of the Japanese Government which is butchering tens of thousands of Chinese workers and again the po- lice attack the peaceful assemblage with bullets and clubs. The Communist Party points out that this all one policy of the bosses —namely, to prepare for war for the Tedivision of the world and against the Soviet Union and not give a pen ny to the unemployed but to carry on a war against the workers at home. This is the policy of the bosses expressed through the Hoover government of starvation and war’ and all the small fry politicians, whether it be democratic Mayor Cer- mak, republican Governor Laffoon of Kentucky or “liberal” Mayor Mur- phy of Detroit, carry out these in- structions. Against these attacks of the police the workers of Chicago must answer with mass protests and mass strug- gles. The Communist Party and the Young Communist League do not be- lieve in or advocate individual acts of terror. It emphatically condemns such acts which play into the hands of the boss class and which are op- posed to the policy of mass struggle against the boss class and their po- lice. However, the Communist Party and the Young Communist League will not join hands with the boss class and its press in their attempt to whitewash the cold blooded, mur- derous attacks of the police who shot. into the crowd, provoking Steve Chuck to acts of desperation. We point out to the workers that the only effective measures to deal with fn murderous provocations by the police is through organized mass ac- tion and struggle, we declare that against the brutal attacks of the po- lice the workers must organize their mass self-defense. The workers of Chicago shall not forget. August 3rd when three Negro workers were shot down because they fought against evictions. They shall not forget the continual attacks upon all gatherings of workers and partic- ularly against the Communists and the present pending trial for crim- inal syndicalism of seven leaders of the Communist Party. ‘These present attacks are to try and force the workers to starve and die peacefully and not to raise their voices in protest against the present imperialist war in China which is only the beginning of broader opera- tions directed against the Soviet Un- ion. We tell the boss class that you cannot crush the Chicago workers— you cannot separte the mass of works ers from their Communist leadership. “Let us learn revolutionary courage from the Communards; let us see in their practical measures an indication of practically urgent and immedi- ately possible measures; and it is by that path that we shall arrive at the complete destruction of bureaucracy.” ~Lenin, “State and Revolution,” March 18, 1932, is 1.L.D, Paris Com- mune Anniversary. Demonstrate for the Scottsboro prisoners, 19° Mooney, Kentucky, and California victims