The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 16, 1932, Page 1

WORKERS OF THE WORLD,} UNITE! Dail . Central Orla (Section of the Communist International) * >) ER Yorker EN Co unist Party US.A.| _Vol. 1X, No. 64. > at New York, N. Yo Entered az accond-clase matter at the Post Office der the act ef March %, 1877 RETURN All Tag Day Boxes Today to Daily Worker Office, 5th Floor, 50 East 13th Street, New York City. a= —s CITY EDITION — Price 3 Cents __ Towards Greater Revolution- ary Battles in Germany | yt million yotes for the Communist Party in the German elections on Sunday, again gave witness to the inexorable forward movement of the forces of the proletarian revolution. The German working class, slowly but surely, is gathering its forces for the coming battles in which it will 8mash down the rule of fascist reaction being carried through by Bruening-Hindenburg with the support of the social-democracy. The working class is further prepared for the struggle against the in- creased offensive on the working class plotted by Hindenburg-Hitler, open- ly prepared even before the elections and postponed in complete fulfill- ment to assist the social-democracy to deliver up a disarmed working class in the election on the basis of the treacherous slogan of “the lesser evil.” By means of the slogan of the “lesser evil,” it was possible for the j social-democracy to deliver the greatest part of its nine million followers — e I to the Monarchist, Hindenburg, who is the chief figure of the general camp of fascist reaction, But this solves none of the burning problems of the German masses who are being driven further and further into the abyss of misery and starvation. Nor does it solve, but rather in~ tensifies the crisis of the social-democracy, which is being forced to dis- card, reg by rag, its garments of “democracy” and. “peaceful transition to socialism,” and emerge ever more nakedly before the masses as the direct support of the bourgeois dictatorship. Behind the shouts of victory of the bourgeoisie of all lands at the result of the elections, can be heard their uneasy warnings in undertones to one another, that the very “victory” serves to hasten the maturing of the revolutionary crisis, The “victory” of Hindenburg will be recorded in history upon that page headed by the victory of Phyrrus, of Greek Jegend, who exclaimed: “Another such victory and I will be without an army.” The German working class, learning in bitter experience the role of the social-democracy as the riveter of the chains of capitalism upon their legs, are thereby winning their political independence of the last great agency of the bourgeoisie for their enslavement. Here lies the real achievement of the revolutionary working class in this election. This is the invaluable gain that has been made, that another great step has been taken toward the separation of the working masses from soclal-democracy, a gain that is the direct result of the correct Marxist-Leninist leadership and strategy of the German Communist Party under the leadership of the Communist International, Kreuger and Ford--Symbols of Capitalist Choas and Mass Murder - T= suicide of Ivar Kreuger is a dramatic expression of the growing difficulties and insoluble contradictions of world captialism, — In the days of “prosperity” Kreuger was heralded by the capitalist economists and their social fascist lackeys as the genius of “organized capitalism.” They tried to convince the workers that the era of crisis was over and endless prosperity at hand. The Swedish match trust and the various other international industrial and financial monopolies or- anized by him were pictured by the socialist Kautsky and his like as ir theory of ultra-imperialism which described: the develop- alist monopolies as doing away with the rivalries between ¢, powers and the anarchy of capitalist production which causes periodical crisis: ‘The ruthless and murderous exploitation upon which Kreuger built up his trust were presented to the workers by the social fascists as the road to peaceful transformation from capitalism to socialism. Kreuger and Ford were hailed by the golden era theoreticians and the sccialists as the saviours of the workers. A typical expression of this attitude is the statement of a leading German socialist trade unionist, made before the present economic crisis, who said: ye must distinguish two epochs in the development of capital- ism: The epoch of British capitalism which was limited in its possibilities of expansion, and the epoch of American capitalism which, on the basis of the latest technical advance, can unendingly expand and develop. “For .the first epoch, Marx and La Salle were typical. They maintained that wages are determined by certain economic laws, that they depend on the cost of labor power, etc. For the second epoch, Ford is typical. He proved that capitalism can prosper while the workers need not at the same time remain poor.” The crisis which broke out in 1929 supplied a smashing answer to wiese treacherous ideas of the socialist fascist leaders. Under the im- pact of the present crisis the “invincible” fortresses of “organized capi- falism” are being shattered into dust. These very monopolist “pillars” of capitalism deepen, extend and prolong the crisis. The Swedish government attempted to save the bankruptcy of the Kreuger interest. The National Bank of Sweden loaned the Swedish match trust over $26,800,000, and the workers of Sweden will bear the burden for the generous gift of the Swedish government and the bank- ruptcies of the Kreuger interests. The leading capitalist governments throughout the world, not exempting the United States, are in one form or another extending huge loans to the tottering credit system in order to save themselves from the ever growing bankruptcies and bank failures. This is one of the means of the capitalists to get out of the crisis by placing the burdens and the effects of the crisis on the shoulders of the working class. It is not the “Stalin regime” (Trotsky) which s tottering. It is the capitalist world pressed on all sides by its insoluble contradictions which is breaking under their growing weight. The suicide of Kreuger drama~- tically brings out the contrasts between the growing chaos in the capi- talist world and the growth of socialism in the Soviet Union. Kreuger and more leading capitalists pressed to the wall will com- mitt suicide.~ ‘The capitalist system will not commit suicide. The greater hte chaos and the despair which embraces the capitalist world, the more will it increase its attack on the living standards of the workers, the more will it sharpen its weapons of fascist reaction and look towards war as a way out of the crisis. Tre recent mass murder by Ford and the suicide of Kreuger, the two “socialist” symbols of the capitalist “paradise,” reveal the inner- most chaos of the capitalist world and its murderous policy toward the class. It is the greatest illusion, however, to imagine that capitalism will collapse automatically. As against this capitalist chaos and murder, the working class must organize to lead the oppressed toiling masses in the revolutionary and only way out. The organized power of the working class led by the Communist Party must give the final death blow to the decaying and dying system of capitalism. Execute 10 to 25 Workers Every Week in El Salvador * NEW YORK:—Every week between at the rate of 10 10 to 25 workers and peasants are| Said, “but in spite executed in El Salvador as Commun. |, # the Government his x {sts, according to an American who just arrived in Mexico City where ‘he gave an inetrview to the Associa- ted Press. The iatéd Press tele- gram quotes a conversation between the American and # Salvadorean army commander who declared “8,000 Communists were slain in the revolt there a little more than a month ago.” The dispatch goes on to state: _ “The executions « continuing army, because it feared they were | } EVICT TENANTS IN RENT STRIKE Workers Pledge to Continue Picketing NEW YORK—The threatened mass eviction, which had been held off so far by the militant resistance of the tenants and neighbors on Longfellow Ave., was carried through today, the coldest day of the year. At the early hours of 8:30 a.m., 50 marshals, supported by dozens of cops, detectives and the privately- hired thugs of the landlord, entered into the five houses on Longfellow Ave., where a rent strike is in prog- ress to dump 15 families on the street. Some of the smaller children were still in bed, others were getting ready to leave for school when the mar- shals burst in, Screaming, crying children, pleading mothers did not stop them. Children were forced out, shaking with the cold, beside the household furniture piled on the street. At 7:30 in the morning, before the marshals arrived, police were already in the street. By 10:30 they were augmented by a squad of 50 more, including dozens of mounted cops. The entire block was roped off. Noone was allowed to enter. Police stood in the doorways of the houses and stopped anyone from leaving. Others were on the roofs of the houses. Virtual martial law was in force. The crowds of workers were forced outside the block while the evictions were carried through. The report in the capitalist papers that the tenants’ committee told the marshals the families would all move out quietly was branded as an “ab- solute lie” by the committee. One worker spoke to the marshal and he told him “We are not going to move out, we will stay here until we either get a settlement or we are thrown out by force.” | At 12:30 an open-air meeting was held, protesting the evictions with hundreds of workers in the audience. Today 10 more families must an- swer eviction summonses in the Wil- liam Bridge Court at 1400 William Bridge. The Mid-Bronx Unemployed Council and the tenants of the neigh- borhood will march to the court to exert mass pressure against the threatened evictions, “Even if all of us are evicted,” the tenants said, “We will continue pick- eting and wont allow anyone to rent the rooms until the landlord grants our demands.” TOBACCO FACTORY WORKERS. STRIKE Walk Out Against Pay ‘Cut at Sack’s NEW YORK.—The Tobscco Work- ers of Sack’s Tobacco Factory, 515 E. 164th St., the Bronx, have declared a strike against a slashing wage cut and inhuman conditions in the fac- tory. : The [Tobacco Workers Industrial League affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League, appeal to all the rest of their fellow tobacco workers for solidarity and help to win the strike. The victory of this strike shall mark the beginning of a real strong, revolutionary movement in the tobac- co trade, and this victory, fellow- workers, depends upon your help. The boss terror is already in ac- tion, but with your comradely mass picketing, we shall win! The headquarters of the Tobacco Workers Industrial League, affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League, are at 5 E. 1sth St Mass organizations, get into revolutionary competition to save Daily Worker, Raise Red Issue in Effort to Remove Howard College Head — +, An attempt is being made to re- move Dr, Mordecai Johnson, head of the Howard University, because of a speech he made a year ago. In this speech, Johnson, in comment- ing on the growing response of the toilin gNegro masses to the Com- munist program, was forced to ad- mit that the Communist Party was carrying on a relentless and uncom- promising struggle for the rights of the Negro national minority. Dr. Johnson's factional enemies at once seized upon these sdmissions to brand him as a Red, The movement to remoye him crystallized yesterday when at a special meeting of the board of trustees of the university held at the Prince eorge Hotel, New York City, an investigation was ordered into the “organization and opera~ tton of Howard University.” 28 Delegates from Ky. Strike Area Break Through Terror; Leave for NMU Convention Need for Relief Is Tremendous; Relief Com- mittee Unable to Take Food Off Train for Lack of Funds Call Conference to Work Out Policy for Min- ers Still On Strike; Many Criminal lc Syndicalist Ca KNOXVILLE, Tenn., March 11. ses Come Up -Twenty- eight delegates elected by rank and file strik- | ers and from working mines in the coal strike area in Kentucky-Tennessee left yesterday for the National Miners Union convention in Pitts- burgh despite the edict of Sheriff Broughton that all delegates would be stopped and prohibited from attending the conven- tion. At the strike executive meetnig last Friday it was decided to call a‘conference with three délegates from each of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Japanese Continue Troop Concentrations on Soviet Frontier Army Officers Threaten Reprisals Against| - Soviet Union for Attack On Japanese Plane on Spying Tour Over U.S.S.R. Japanese military officials at Mukden yes- terday threatened reprisals against the Soviet Union because Soviet airmen forced down a Japanese military plane which was on a spying tour over Soviet territory. The Japanese of- ficials at the ‘same time triel to explain away this latest war provocation against the Soviet Union on the-ridiculous excuse that the Japanese pilot was “unfamiliar” with the terrain. This in spite of the fact that the Japanese pilot had to fly over the Amur River in crossing over the Soviet border. ‘Their monstrous war provocations * allies met an alert Red Army, ready against the Soviet Union having forced the Soviet Government to take steps to protect the Soviet bor- ders against the Japanese-White Guard threat of invasion, the Jap- anese imperialists are now trying to reverse cause and effect in their at- tempt to distort the defensive meas- ures of the Soviet Union in strcngth- ening its forces on the Siberian bor- der. A Mukden dispatch which quoted Japanese army officers on the flight of the Japanese military plans over Soviet territory, adds: “Nevertheless, some quarters were inclined to consider the incident seriously in view of recent Russian troop concentrated on the frontier.” ‘The spying tour of the Japanese plane over Soviet territory represents the second direct invasion of Soviet territory within the past week. A few days ago a Japanese-armed White Guard detachment crossed over into the Soviet territory. In both cases, the Japanese and their White Guard to repel any invasion bf Soviet ter- ritory. In both cases, the action of the Soviet defense forces was prompt and effective, giving food for thought to the imperialist brigands bent on @ war of intervention and robbery against the Soviet Union and its suc- cessful Socialist construction. ‘The quick, defensive action of the Red Army must serve as an inspiration to the tens of millions. of workers rallying throughout the capitalist countries and the colonies for the de- fense of the Socialist Fatherland. Japanese Troops Active All Along Soviet Frontier A full Japanese army division is advancing towards the Manchurian town of Manchouli, on the Soviet border. A Changchun dispatch re- ports Japanese military activities all along the Soviet border. It says: “Further efforts to extend the bordéts of the new nation are re- vealed by military activity all along the Sino-Soviet frontier.” Workers Del egates Score Foreign Born Bills at Hearing WASHINGTON, D. C., March 15. —At a hearing of the anti-alien bills before the Immigration Com- mittee of Congress, delegates of various organizations testified op- posing the bills, Edmund Camp- bell appeared for the Civil Liber- ties Union, Saul Horwatt, The City Dr. Johnson is himself a staunch supporter of the vicious capitalist system which savagely oppresses the Negro masses. He is a hench- man of the notorious DePriest, rich Negro landlord who with other Ne- gto and white landlords of Chicago, together with the Chicago Defender and the Chicago branch of the N. A. A. C. P. ordered the police mas- sacre last August 3 of unemployed Negro workers protesting against evictions, The present attempt to remove him because of his admissions that the Communist Party is waging the fight against Negro oppression is a measure of the extent to which the white ruling class and their Negro tools are going in their futile at- tempts to isolate the Party from the Negro masses and to suppress the last vestiges of free speech in the | universities, Central Club Committee, M. Goldy for the Women's Council, Joseph Brodsky and Sam Mcholaris tor the International Workers Order, Anrel for the Russian Mutual Aid. Leitner representing the Hungarian Sick Benefit, Harold Nielson, the Workers &x-Servicemen’s League and Bill Dunne for the Communist Party. A representative of the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion was also present.“ The ‘hear- ing was held in a tense atmosphere created by the speakers, The Immigration Committee con- sists of Samuel Dickstein, repre- sentative from New York, Mr. Johnson of Washington, Cable of Ohio, Houston of Delaware and a Mr. Moon. That Johnson is openly laying the basis for the Department of Justice attempting with personal inquiries to furnish grounds or the deportation of foreign borr workers was pointed out by the speakers, especially Horwatt, in hi testimony which fasted tor mor, than an hour, The Civil Liberties Union, instead of opposing the bil, stated that Communists who advocated vio~ lence should be deported and by ridiculous cep cadictions became the laughing tock. PDL Dunn shraply analyzed the meaming of the bills, and is still spealiimg as the Daily Worker gocs to pay. Other delegates are yet to te heard, ll ‘ tn COMMUNE MAR. 18 THRUOUT WORLD. Millions to Protest White Terror NEW YORK. ith white ter nd meet- | | ings 1 States | under the banner of th tional Labor Defense on thi Police terror against the unem- ployed will be the center of protest | at these Commune meetings. | The recent ults by police on the | Detroit jobless demonstration before the Ford plant and the clubbings by Chicago cops i ted upon unem- ployed and anti-imperialist war dem- onstrators will be denounced by hun- dreds of thousands of workers. A mass concert, featuring a “Mooney Mass Chant” and a “Paris Commune Chant,” will be held in Los Angeles at the Masonic Hall. John Reed Club of Los Angeles ranging a program which will it a one-act play on Scottsboro and Kentucky miners’ songs, In other cities, such as Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, Milwaukee and Philadelphia, wass demonstrations | will be held to denounce the Scotts- boro and Mooney frame- the Tampa terror, the attempts to outlaw militant organizations in Los An- | geles and the murder and arerst of | | union leaders and strikgrs in Ken- Eighteen demonstrations are sched- | uled for New York City and the sur- rounding suburbs. PLAN MASS MAY 1 CELEBRATION AT CONFERENCE SUN. To Map Fight Against Robber War NEW YORK. — Workers in shops, trade unions, unemployed councils, fraternal benefit and cultural socie- ties are electing delegates to the mass May Day Anti-War Conference cal- led by the provisional May Day Com- mitttee set up by the Communist Party for this Sunday, March 20th, at 1 p. m. at Stuyvesant Casino, 9th Street and Second Ave. ‘This conference will make plans for the coming day of International 0 HONOR PARIS (500 DETROIT WORKERS JOIN COMMUNIST PARTY IN REPLY TO MURPHY-FORD MASSACRE 16—bown|000 Young Workers Join Young Communist League; Protests Against Murder Keen Up Call Big United Front Anti-War and Ford Massacre Conference Sunday Detroit Workers have given their answer to the massacre of the Ford Hunger Marchers March 7th. In the last three days 500 workers have joined the Young Communist League, of which Joe Work was district organizer. Five hundred adult workers joined the Communist Party. At the funeral 5,000 Daily Workers, the newspaper which leads in the struggle against hunger, were sold. e s DETROIT, Mich., March 15—The Provisional Anti-War Committee and the Ford Massacre Defense Committee have issued a joint call for a broad united for an anti-war and Ford massacre conference for Sunday, March 20, at 2 p.m., at Northwestern High School on Grand River near Grand « Boulevard. All workers’ organizations are re- |POur in a quested to send three delegates. Prob- |4¢r by the F Murphy regime of 4 lems of anti-war activities, demon-|Yemployed workers at the Ford« strations against hunger, and a work- | River-Ro plant on March 7th, inquiry into the Ford massacre,| Among those passing resolutions of as well as a monument for the four © Labor Sports Union, murdered Ford workers will be dis- cussed. The mass demonstration called for | March 25th at rand Circus Park has | | seteneeis been postponed to April 6th. grams were sent to Murphy, Ford and the governor of Michigan protesting More Protests. against the savage murder of uneme NEW YORK.—Daily more protests | ployed workers. t the cold-blooded mure FF, Class War Prisoners Serd Money, Urge Ail Workers toSave'‘Daily’ The Daily Worker yesterday re- ceived $3.75 and the following letter from 11 workers who have been jailed by the bosses for ‘unlawful assembly’. The letter speaks for itself. Read the letter and ask yourself: Have you working class solidarity and struggle against capitalism, for the mobiliza- tion of the tens of thousands of work- ers of New York for a mighty dem- onstration against mass hunger, and bosses’ mass murder, for unemploy- ment insurance, for hands off China and defense of the Soviet Union. The growth of the rrisis, with growing unemployment, hass misery, hunger and death, the attempt of the capitalists to reduce the unem- ployed to a state of beggars, and the employed to paupers, the frightful growth of police terror and murder of militant workers, lynch fury against the Negro masses, and brutal persecution of the foreign-born, that go hand in hand with the sharpening war provocations against the Soviet Union, and the murderous war on the Chinese masses, call for making this May Day the greatest day of mass organization and mass _ struggle against capitalism, and all its hor- rors. Every shop, mine and factory a fertile field for Daily Worker sub- scriptions. done everything in your power to save the Daily Worker? “Daily Worker, “50, East 18th Street, “New York City. “We, 11 workers still held in prison because of the Long Beach raid since Jan. 15 and awaiting deportation charges in addition to “unlawful as- sembly” have heard of the appeal of the Daily Worker, We realize the importance of raising the $50,000, and are sorry that we cannot do more than we are. “However, we resolved not to smoke, buy cap- italist newspapers, and spare from other prison comforts for three days and donate that money to the Daily Worker. Enclosed therefore please find $3.75 which we accumulated. “We hope that other workers, better fixed than we are, will realize also the great need of our paper, the Daily Worker, and will help go over the top in the drive. “With revolutionary greefings, “Peter Pan, “Daily Worker agent in jail. “On behalf of all the 11 prisoners.” MOSCOW, March 15,-~ Kalinin- dorf district scored a biz victory in seed collection. The Pravda brig- ade reports that on March 10th the day appointed by the govern- ment, Kalinindorf district collected 100 per cent of its seed. The party nuclei of the villages Molotov, Emes and Churarevka showed splendid examples of work. The Kolkhoz (collective farm) activists effectively counteracted the Kulak propaganda, Kolkhozes in the back- ward Sholemalkhem and Fafleben districts were given proper assis- tance resulting in their being among the first to fully prepare for the sowing season. The Pravda urges the backward flistrict of Ukrainia to “follow the example of the Kalinindorf district in th eorganization of the collection of grain seed.” * * . Every day brings reports of new New Victories Scored on Soviet Collective Farms triumphs of the workers and farm- ers of the Soviet Union. Triumphs which make history as the new Socialist society is being built. The Friends of the Soviet Union, at the invitation of the Soviet trade unions, is organizing a delegation of workers and farmers which will go to the USSR for the May Ist cele- brations. Besides participating in the world’s great demonstration, the May Ist demonstration in Red Square, Moscow, this delegation will take part in and see the open~ ing of huge new plants and fac- tories in the workers’ fatherland. They will bring greetings from the workers of the United States to the free people of the Soviet Union. All workers’ organizations, Amer- ican Federation of Labor unions, shops and ste@l mills are urged to elect delegates to this delegation. Elect a delegate who will tour the Soviet Union at the expense of the Landlord Finally Is Forced to See Tenants Committee on Strike | NEW YORK. — Wm. Grassi, land- lord of 733 Arnow Avenue, after try- ing evictions and tricks to break the strike for lower rents in the house, |finally realized its futility in face of the organized determination of the tenants. He asked the tenants to send “a committee” to see him. The workers answered there is not a come mittee” but the committee, the House Committee, elected by them. Grassi lunable to out-maneuver the tenants on this point asked that the house committee meet with him today at 5:30 p. m, to discuss & settlement, Picketing and open air meetings will continue until the strike ts defi- nitely settled. Every shop, mine and factory a fertile field for Daily Worker sub- scriptions, Russian trade unions and bring back the reports of Russia aa