The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 17, 1932, Page 1

\ 4” Crushing “Revolts” Latest WORKERS OF THE WORLD, ' ‘UNITE! Dai Central "Ores ine-S3 =k or 4 (Section of the Communist International) er mimunist Party -U.S.A. _Vol. IX, No.65 >" at New Vork, N. Y. a1 Entered as sccond-class matter at the Post Office the act larch 3, 1879 NEW YORK, T HURSDAY MARCH 17, 1932 CITY EDITIO ¢ A RETURN All Taz Day Boxes Today to Daily Worker Office, 5th Floor, 50 East 13th Street, New York City. eee are Price 3 Cents _ Japanese Maneuver | kas worker who is opposed to being embroiled in another bloody imperialist war, and particularly in a war for the crushing of the workers’ fatherland, the Soviet Union, should now keep his eyes riveted on the “incidents” occurring with ever greater frequency on the Soviet. Man- churlan border. Little prominence is being given to these events in the capitalist news- papers. News reports from the Far East deal chiefly with what the bour- geois correspondents call “peace negotiations” at Shanghai. There the imperialist diploniats, representing the interests of the United States, Japan, England, and France, are striving to postpone/the struggle be~ tween themselves for the exclusive right to rob and enslave the Chinese people. The-other powers, including the United States, are trying to get Japan out of Shanghai only because the armed forces of Japan threaten the dominant financial and industrial position of other powers there, and threaten to frustrate the realization of their own ambitions to rob the Chinese people of the same territory. But the events in Shanghai, the fake “peace” talk, are directly con- nected with the events in Manchuria. While in the Shanghai area there appears to be a momentary lull in the Japanese butchery of the Chinese people, and even talk—but still ONLY talk—of the withdrawal of a por- tion of the Japanese troops, quite the contrary is true in Manchuria. MORE JAPANESE TROOPS ARE BEING SENT INTO MANCHURIA. And these troops are being concentrated in Manchuria near the borders of the Soviet Union. This is the direct result of the Shanghai “peace ne- gotiations”. ‘The imperialists try to attain peace between themselves by making war against their common enemy, the workers’ and peasants’ Soviet Union. ® The opening of negotiations in Shanghai were accompanied by “rumors” of the concentration of the Japanese fleet near Vladivostok, the chief Soviet port in the East. A few days later a group of Russian white guards, armed by the Jap- anese, carried through a raid across the Soviet border but were repulsed by the vigilant workers’ Red Army. A day or two later a Japanese airplane crossed the border on a spy- ing expedition and was also forced down by Soviet planes. But most significant of all are the so-called “revolts” which are de- veloping against the new Japanese puppet government of Manchuria and ihe steps which the Japanese militarists are taking on the pretext of quelling these revolts. Undoubtedly there is great mass opposition among the workers and peasants in Manchuria to the Japanese efforts to rob and enslave them by means of the puppet government of Henry Pu Yi. But the “revolts” near the Siberian border are inspired by teh Japanese butchers to provide an excuse for the movement of their troops into posi- tions favoralle for war against the Soviet Union. How Japan works is clear from. the case of General Ma. He also “resisted” the advance of Japanese imperialism. He was heralded as the sovior of Manchuria. As he retreated before the Japanese, he retreated north, across the Chinese-Eastern Railway and toward the Soviet border. On the pretense of “crushing the resistance of General Ma” the Japanese forces .occupied Tsitsihar and other strategic points on the Chinese- Eastern. His role as a decoy fulfilled, the “heroic” General Ma, the “sa~ yior of Manchuria”, is now made the war minister of Japan’s new Man- churian government. The present “revolts” in Manchuria serve the same purpose as did the “resistance” and the retreat of General Ma. They are merly the cover for the war moves against the Soviet Union. A new division of Japanese troops have already been sent to the Soviet border. More are probably on the way. ‘This must make the workers realize the immediate danger of war against. the Soviet Union. All tendencies to underestimate this danger must be Overcome. More strongly than ever before the workers must now demand the withdrawal of the Japanese troops from Manchuria and from all of China. More serious efforts must be made to stop the shipment of arms and munitions to China. All the maneuvers of the imperialists in the Facific, particularly those of Wall Street’s tools in Washington, must be watéhed with the greatest vigilance by the workers. Great masses of workers must be aroused to see the immediate danger of war against the Soviet Union. “Hands off China!”, “Defend the Soviet Union!” must be taken everywhere that workers gather, and made the rallying calls for a great mass movement against another bloody imperialist war. Start the Half Dollars Rolling in to Save the Worker’s Paper A total of $15,584 has been received so far in ‘he Daily Worker Emergency Campaign. That is 31 per cent of the quota of $50,000. We neéd $35,000 more, and we need it quick, or the Daily Worker will go under. - How can we save the Daily Worker for lead- ership in the workers’ struggles? How can we get the $35,000 for the Daily Worker in the short- est possible time. That is the problem of every worker in the United States. That is YOUR problem, The answer can be found at once. A half dollar each from 70,000 workers will give a whirl- wind finish to the campaign and will put the work- ers’ paper on a sound financial basis, A half dollar each from 70,000 workers—that is an easy task. Thousands of workers will par- ticipate in the mass demonstrations tomorrow to celebrate the anniversary of the Paris Commune and to protest against.the present boss terror wave, Tens of thousands of workers are joining the fight for unemployment insurance, against wage cuts,» against war plots, Of these there can easily be found 70,000 workers willing to give 50 cents to save the paper that fights for unemploym insurance, that fights against boss terror, that fights against wage cuts and war plots. Can we reach these 70,000 workers? That depends upon you. Cut out the blank form that you will find in this issue. Use it to send in your own half dol- lar; When you get blank forms from your unit or mass organization, canvas your fellow workers, Canvas your neighbors. Set a quota for yourself. Get your organization to set a quota. Start the half dollars rolling in to save the Daily Worker, _, ; - pion a i \ - KIDNAP AND BEAT LAWYER FOR WORKERS Slugging In Danville, Ill. , Defend Jailed Toilers Police Look On and ' Don’t Interfere CHICAGO, WL, March 16,—Albert Goldman, Chicago attorney for the International Labor Defense, was kidnapped and severely beaten by Amarican Legionaires of Danville, H- linois. Joseph Lofton, attorney, rep- resenting the Civil Liberties Union was also kidnapped, but was let off without a beating. Goldman and Lofton had just fin- ished defending twelve workers who had been arrested for trying to or- ganize an Unemployed Council. In @ speech Goldman, attack the mayor the police and the Legionaires for in- terfering with the rights of the work- ers and stated that the interference was at the request of the bankers and manufacturers of Danville who were determined to have the work- ers starve rather than furnish relief. Workers in the court room were very sympathetic and this aroused the Legionaires, The kidnapping oc- curred in front of the court house in the heart of Danville. f Many police officers witnessed it and did no tinterfere. The sheriff's office is only about ten feet away and in spite of cries for help, no one came. A police officer was actually present in the crowd at the head~- quarters of the American Legion where Goldman and Lofton were taken, | Both attorneys were taken to the outskirts sof the city. Goldman was beaten and told that if he ever came back he would not leave Danvilie alive, First Conference For Party Speakers on! Sat. With Weinstone The presidential election cam- paign is nearing. It will soon be in full swing. We cannot overesti- mate the significance and possi- bilities of the coming election. We must, therefore, make steps to pre- pare it thoroughly, especially our Agitprop apparatus. A decided im- provement must be made this year over previous election campaigns. Our mass agitators and propa- gandists shoulder the responsibil- ity of bringing the Party's mes- sage, its program and aims, to the masses with clarity, forcefulness, and convincingly. It is, therefore, important that our speakers be fully acquainted with the various Party campaigns and election is- sues. With these purposes in view, a series of conferences have been arranged for all Party speakers (indoor and open air) to discuss the various Party campaigns and issues of the coming election cam- paign. These conferences will be led by leading Party members (Amter, Browder, Brodsky, Hay- wood, Markoff, Stachel, Weinstone and Winter).| Arrangements are also made to provide all speakers with data and material on the va~ rious subjects to be discussed. The first of these discussions will begin this Saturday March 19, 4 pm, at the Workers Center, 35 E. 12th St. Comrade Weinstone will lead the discussion on “War”. All speakers are urged to register and attend these conferences. | | | tee is being formed to raise a } |Cemetery in memory of York, Bussell, De Blasio and Leny. Albert Goldman Gets | Ford Workers Plan to Build Monu- | ment to Murphy-Ford Massacre } Victims } DETROIT, Mich., March 16.—On the initiative of al| | group of Ford workers, a Ford massacre monument commit- | monument at the Woodmere | | murdered by the Ford and Detroit police during the Hunger | | March on March 7. | The common grave of the murdered ma |the Ford plant and is passed daily by thousa workers on their way to and from work. | The Provisional Monument Committee already re-| | ceived offers of sculptors to make the design for the monu-| | ment. It is planned to have the base of the monument laid | | for May 1. \| Friends, sympathizers and workers’ organizations are | urged to send funds to the Ford Massacre Monument Com-| | mittee at 1843 East Ferry St., Detroit, Michigan. archers face nds of Ford Japanese Use Suspicious ‘Revolts’of Chinese Troops for Advance on U.S.S.R. Japanese Movements Adhere to Plan Laid | Down in Tanaka Document for Attack on Soviet Union The Soviet Union suspended all traffic on | the Ussuri Railway yesterday to permit the| movement of Soviet troops to meet the grow-| ing Japanese concentration of troops on the! Soviet Siberian border, according to a Peiping dispatch. The dispatch says: “This action was taken following Jap- anese troop movements toward Heiho, across the Amur River from Blagovestchensk, where are garrison mutinied against the Inew Manchurian Government. The Japanese contend they are on the «ay to subdue the revolt. “Soviet officials at Harbin are suspicious of Chinese mu- tinies at towns on the Sizerian border which requires the (CONTINDED ON PAGE THREE) | Street Station, LaSalle and Van Bur- | en Streets at 4:30 p.m. NEW YORK, March 17—The latest effort of the Zaritsky clique to be- tray the workers of the millinery trade into new wage-cuts takes oy the form of a fake stoppage which is called this morning in all shops un- der the control of the International company union. ‘The workers, many of whom have been led to believe that the stoppage is a real strike for union conditions, have been told by the union leaders to leave the shops at 10 am. The “Women’s Wear,” organ of the bosses, however, unwittingly let the cat out of the bag yesterday and exposed the fraudulance of the whole stoppage. ‘This journal, in commenting on the stoppage, said that it was agreed upon in a meeting Tuesday night be- tween the union heads and represen- tatives of the bosses’ association that the workers will all return to work Friday and that: the stoppage will only last one day, In the meantime it was announced that the millinery bosses’ association has called a meeting of all shop own- ers at 3 p.m. today. This meeting will be addressed by Mr. Agifer of the association, who will enlighten The Six Governors’ Fake Unemployment By I. AMTER I Unemployment is growing throughout the nation in spite of the few ups and downs in a The recent reports in the capitalist press state that “in New York and the New England states, employment seems to be deoreasing. The Philadelphia dis- trict sees no signs of an upward turn, The Middle West reports a distinct “back to the St. Louis reports unemploy- ment acute. The south sees slight improvement here and there. The Far West finds employ-~ ment in a new low.” This indicates clearly that instead of the promises and hopes of the bosses and the Hoover government that there would be @ revival of trade in spring, there is not the slightest outlook of any improvement, but on the contrary unemployment is steadily growing few isolated sections of industry. farm” movement. growing throughout the country. tinual in the steel industry, in carloadings, and the fake boom development in the auto industry ‘through the announcement of a new type of car | Fake A.F.L. Millinery Stoppage Supported by Woll and Thomas Rank and File Committee Urges Workers to Turn Stoppage Into Real Strike the bosses on the special privileges granted to association members. At the same time the Zaritsky gang has called a meeting of the workers in the Mecca Temple, where William Green, Woll and Norman Thomas wlli tell of the “special privileges” to be gained through the fake stop- page. It is a well-known fact that the union leaders and the bosses agreed to the stoppage to give each a chance to build up their organization and collect. more dues. The Millinery Section or the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union is- sued a call this morning to all hat makers in the International Union not to rely on the leaders, but to form rank and file committees in the shops and carry on the struggle over the heads of the officials for Yeal union conditions. The United Front Committee of Millinery Workers urges all workers not to return to work until they have won a minimum scale of $55 for op- erators and $35 for trimmers. Work- ets are warned to beware of paper agreements, |tacks against the standards of the TO PROTEST | MASSACREIN Cl. MEETING Mass at Mooney Meet in Coliseum Friday, March 18th I'wo Parades: Planned Mother Mooney Speaks on Radio, WCFL CHICAGO, UL, March 16—-The | Tom Mooney protest meeting sche- | [ duled for Friday, March 18 will be | held in the large hall of the Coliseum. This enlarged mass meeting will de- | mand the freedom of Tom Mooney and the Scottsboro boys and protest | against the police massacre in De- | troit, Chicago and Danville, Hlinois. | | Mother Mooney will speak. Com- mitteos representing trade unions and other working class organiza- | tions will greet Mother Mooney and Mother Montgomery at the LaSalle | Mother Mooney will speak over the radio station, WCFL, at 8:30 p. m. on Thursday. Two parades have been arranged for Friday, March 18, to start at | | 7:30 p. m. and to terminate at the | Coliseum. One parade will start at 33rd and Wabash, march north on Wabash to the Hall. The second will | start at Roosevelt and Canal, go east on Roosevelt Avenue to Wabash and south to the hall. Conference to Prepare May Day | On Coming Sunday All Organizations and | Unions to Send Delegates A special appeal was issued yester- day by the provisional United Front May Day arrangements committee to all workers in shops, trade unions, unemployed councils and other work- ers’ mass organizations to jcin the United Front for the preparation of a gigantic demonstration on May Day against hunger, police terror and im- perialist war. The United Front Con- ference initiated by the Communist! Party will take place this coming| Sunday, March 20, 1 p.m., at Stuyve- sant Casino, 142 Second Ave. The plans for the coming day of Inter- national Labor solidarity and strug- gle against capitalism will be dis- cussed nad a committee in charge of all preparations elected. All shops, unions and mass organ- izations should check up at once on the election of delegates to this im- portant conference. May Day, the traditional day of struggle of the, American working class in the great class battles for the eight-hour day, becomes of special great importance to all workers today. The fierce at- masses, the vicious wage slashes, and intense terror against the workers that goes hand in hand with the bloody war on the Chinese masses, and growing provocations against the Soviet Union, call for a huge demon- stration this May Day. Elect your delegates to the May Day United Front Conference! Have your shop, union or organization par- ticipate in the organization of the coming May Day of mass militant struggle against hunger, terror and bosses’ war. Insurance Plan 65 per cent, a drop of 14 i 15 per cent worse than period last year.” ‘The con- the for by Ford, cannot offset or negate the fact that, employment in the industries is declining. In the State of New York alone, the State Depart- ment of Labor reports: “Payrolls are at 55 per cent of the normal level and unemployment only period last year. Building construction is 15 per cent less than it was in 1931 and 62 per cent of skilled labor now is unemployed.” ‘The findings the State Department of Agriculture show the “principal products of the State are even than they were in 1910” The ‘Times Combined Index shows a drop cent in the principal fields of 1931 from average. Generally speaking the report “The net situation in industry today is Much noise has been made about an alleged increase in savings deposits in the banks of this country, but the Bankers Association announced on November 15th that savings banks accounts declined $270,085,000 - the year ending June, 1931 and there has per cent from the same 1933.” for the corresponding been a further decline since that time. In view of this situation, demands have been made by Frank G. Taylor, Public Welfare Com~ missioner of the State of New York, for 200 million dollars for relief during the present year. Mr. Johnson, State Commissioner of Social Wel- fare, declares that “The need for relief must continue through the year 1932, at least and probably in diminishing degree during part of In the State of New Jersey, the situation is no less appalling. Chester I. Barnard, State Director of Emergency Relief, states that “250 million dollars per annum will be required at this time to meet the conditions due to depression.” The capitalists realize that the situation is very serious and therefore are making gestures in proposing various forms of aid to the more than 12 million unemployed in the country at the present time. providing 375 million dollars in relief to the fa \ SCONTINUED ON PAGH THREM) , ‘The LaFollette-Costigan Bill, ellie Chicago Workers Rally for Huge March 18 Protest Court Room Packed by Indignant Workers at Hearing for 26 Arrested at Anti- War Demonstration Many A. F. L. Locals Pledge Support for Big Coliseum Meet Friday ‘Chicago Eye Witness Tells of Savage ‘Police Attack on Workers Protesting! Against War CHICAGO, March 16.—The police lie that Mrs. Anna Rijcb and | her 17-year-old son Edward were wounded by bullets fired by Siephen. Chuck during the anti-war demonstration last Saturday was fully ex- posed today by Edward who described ihe police attack on the antic | war demonstration and the wounding of his mother ard himself. Ed- ward states: “We got over at the appointed place about nvon. y the crowd started to push and the police split up the people, to drive some north and some south. I saw several men in civili: clothes with revolvers swinging on the heads of people. We got caught in the crowd going south and my mother was in front of me, Suddenly I felt a sting in my right hip and then my mother staggered and I knew the bullet had gone on and hit . She was wounded in the left side. I helped mother out of the crowd and we got away on a street car to the hospital. She did not say a word on the way over but suffered silently, She was bleeding pretty badly, too. “My father is out of work and so am I and my oldest sisier, Josephine, 18 years old. My father feels sympathetic with my moth- er’s views on the Unemployed Council.” Edward’s mother is a member of the Unem yed Councils of Chicago. CHICAGO, March 16.—The workers of Chicago, indignant against the bloody police attack on the anti-war and unem. ployment demonstrations are preparing for the huge demon- stratino here March 1 8at the Coliseum Hall, 15th and Wabash. More than 20 local unions of the A. F. of L. have pledged complete support for hte protest demonstration and promised to-attend in a vody’ Large numbers of Negro and young work. ers are expected to turn out. The workers will march to hts Coliseum from Thirty-third and Wabash (South Side) and from Canal and Roosevelt (North Side) under banners and slogans denouncing the robber war egainste- their union cards, China, the increasing war provoca- tions against the Soviet Union and demanding the release of Tom Moo- ney and Billings, the 9 Scottsboro Negro boys, the repeal of the Illinois syndicalist law, release of Gebert and other leaders of Illinois workers and a halt to the murderous police terror against the Chicago Negro and white workers, Workers Pack Court at Hearing. CHICAGO, Ill, March 16—Dem- onstrating their anger against the bloody police attack on the anti-war demonstration, Chicago workers yes- terday packed the court room as 26 of the workers arrested at thte dem- onstration were brought up before Judge William Brooks. Judge Brooks threatened to clear the court room in an effort to prevent support of the working class for the arrested work- ers, In spite of the fact that the police had no signed complaints against the arrested workers, Judge Brooks fixed bail at $2,400 each on 25 of the ar- rested workers and $51,000 against Stephen Chuck whom the police are trying to frame up on charges that he fired several shots during the demonstration. Attorney Goldman represented the workers for the International Labor Defense and demanded one jury) trial for all the arrested. The date for trial has been set for March 22. In the attempt to whitewash the | murderous attack on the workers by mounted, motor cycle and foot police | firing guns into the crowd, the bos- | ses are trying to frame the arrested | workers on the charge of “assault | with intent to murder, rioting and unlawful assemblage.” The majority of the arrested work- ers still show marks of the brutal beating they were given by the police. Stephen Chuch is still in the hos- pital, BUILDING TRADES MEMBERS OF THE TUUL! PICKET IN FLOOR SCRAPERS’ STRIKE! All unemployed members of the Building and Construction Workers Industrial League are urged to take part in the mass picketing in the floor scrapers’ strike Wednesday, March 16th, for one hour, from 7:30 a. m. to 8:30 a. m. at Corner Park Avenue and E. 126th St., N. Y. ©, METAL FRACTION MEETING. A special fraction meeting of all nembers of the Communist Party and Young Communist League, who are metal workers, employed and unem~- ployed, will be held on Saturday, Mar. 19, 1932, at 2 p. m. at the Workers’ Center. Matters of crucial import- ance to all comrades in the metal industry will be taken up. A destrict representative will be at this meeting PARIS COMMUNE MEETINGS WILL PROTEST TERROR 18 Meetings to Be Held In New York District NEW YORK, N. |roar of protest against the murder and clubbing of unemployed and janti-imperialist war workers in Chi- jcago and Detroit will be raised by | tens of thousands of militant workers |i eighteen Paris Commune demon- |strations here on March 18. The j Scottsboro and Mooney frame-ups, and the terror against workers in Tampa, Ja., and Long Beach Cal., wilt also be scored at these meetings un der International Labor Defense aus< Pices on Friday. The list of meetings In New York district fo'ows: March 17, Jamaica, L. L, Town March 17.—A Hall, Parsons Blvd. and Jamaica Ave. March 20, Perth Amboy, N. J, 308 Elm St. March 18, New Brunswick, N. J, 11 Plum St. Brownsville, Brooklyn, demone stration meets at Sutter and Penn, and marches to meeting at 1813 Pitkin. Lower Manhattan, march from 10th St. and Second Ave. to Mane hattan Lyceum. * Paterson, N. J., 3 Governor St. Asbury Park, N. J., Reindeer Rest, Long Branch, 619 Broadway. The Bronx, march from Wash- ington and Clairmont St. te Am- bassador Hall. Harlem: 7th and Thrid Ave. with march to Labor Temple at 14th St. and a second parade from Fifth Ave., and 135th St, to hall a¢ 6 W. 135th St. Williamsburg, from Grand Ex- tension and Havermyer to 101 Grand St, Newark, 53 Beacon St., 8 p.m, and an open air demonstration at Military Park, heart of Newark, 6 pm. Brooklyn, 48 Bay 28th St. and 3034 Ocean Parkway. Manhattan, 140 Broad St., downe town. Boro Park, 1373 434 St. 7 South Brooklyn, 136 15th St, si NEW WAGE-CUT IN ARMOURS (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Ill—Armour and Com- pany is again cuttingthe wage fiva and take a roll call. All must bring per cent. Other meat packers ar@ to follow the same. Workers! Ore anize and resist the wage reduction{