The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 19, 1932, Page 1

i 4 t ocals in Kentucky, Tennessee, RALLY TO THE MA SS UNITED FRONT ANTI-WAR CONFERENCE TOMORROW, STUYVESANT CASINO, Ipm WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dal Central 4 orker unist Porty U.S.A. RETURN All Tag Day. Boxes Today to Daily Worker Office, 5th Floor, 50 East 13th Street, New York at New York, N.Y. ander the act of Marck 3, 187? Vol. IX, No. 67 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1932 Org City. NC (Section of the Communist International) 7 Untered as eccond-clase matter at the Pust Office > ~ CITY EDITION sf Price 3 Cents_ Chicago Police Bullets Defend Japanese Imperialism we the news of Chicago police shooting into 5,000 workers demon~ strating at the Japanese Consulate, comes official estimates of the casualties of the Japanese imperialist war against the Chinese people on the Shanghai front are published in the “New York Times,” March 17, Japanese bombs and machine-guns upon the defenseless population of Chapei reaped a harvest of the fruits of imperialism estimated as follows: 1 One hundred sixty thousand homeless families, totalling about one million people. Three hundred fifty million dollars (gold) destruction of homes and Buildings. ‘Ten thousnad forty missing persons (bodies probably burned in ruins 2 Chapei). Six thousand eighty civilians killed (argely women and children), ‘Unknown tens of thousands of soldiers killed and wounded. Burning rage must rise in the heart of every worker against this Mass murder by Japanese imperialism. A fierce hatred of these mur- derers for business, is sweeping the international working class, including the Japanese workers who are heroically battling “their own” imperialist government under the leadership of the Japanese Communist Party. The slogan of the moment of the intrnational proletariat is, “Defeat the robber war of Japanese imperialism against the Chinese people.” For this end the masses seek for all possible channels to express their hatred and abhorrence of the mass murders in Shanghai and Manchuria, and of the preparations for an even larger war against the Soviet Union. For this end the revolutionary proletariat supports fully every mass expres- aion of this hatred, including the movement for the boycott of Japanese imperialism and its commerveand all popular expression hostile to its foreign representatives, demanding they cease their activities and return home. The revolutionary proletariat of all the world is in one solid front for defense of the Chinese md$ses and support for the Japanese pro- Jetariat in its struggle to overthrow its reactionary-feudal regime of the Mikado, representing the landlord-capitalist combination. The slogan of the Japanese workers: “Defeat Japanese Imperialism,” is the slogan of the workers of the whole world. ~ When war begins, as now in the Far East, all the disgusting hypo- cricy of the pacifists nad social-traitors reveals itself in its ugly naked- ness. Thus the sudden turn-about-face of all such “friends of peace,” on the question of boycott of Japanese imperialism. For years these gentlemen exerted their utmost to lull the working class to sleep with the assurance that war would be averted by the League of Nations through the boycott against imperialist aggressors. But the moment a concrete imperialist aggressor stands before the world with its sword dripping with the blood of men, women and children, shed in the most unprovoked mass slaughter known to modern history—at that.moment every pacifist, every social fascist, suddenly finds that for a thousand reasons the moment for even a boycott is “not favorable” and most of them even come out with a direct denunciation of the boycott as a “war measure.” What for years they extolled as the “preventive of war’ now becomes the greatest “instrument of war.” They plead for “peace” with bloody Jap- anese imperialist aggression! Heywood Broun, spokesman for the Socialist party in the columns of the capitalist “World-Telegram” of New York, expressed, this reactionary role of support for imperialism, when he attacked the Communist, cam- paign against. Japanese imperialism as “provocation of war”; the rene- gadé Lovestone, who always stands in the forefront of all such police- agent work, repeats the slander. These worthy agents of the bourgeoisie act, toward Japanese imperialist aggression, exactly as Heywood Broun did towards Southern Jim Crowism and lynching of Negroes in the United States, when he declared that he would not advocate the enforcement IN DETROIT THIS FRIDAY Call Schmies Before Detroit Grand Jury Try to Frame Him Up Detroit Workers Will Defend Him DETROIT, Mich., March 18. — John Schmies, Trade, Union Unity League secretary for the Michigan District, was called to Judge Jefries court yesterday in the case grow- ing out of a demonstration inGrand Circus Park November 25, 1931, when Murphy and his police broke the demonstration and beat up and arrested many of the workers, ’ Schmies at that time was sént- enced to 90 days in jail. The case was appealed and postponed on ac- count of Schmies’ illness as the re- sult of an automobile accident. When he appeared in court he was handed a subpoena to appear at the Wayne County grand jury which at present time is conducting an “investigation” of the killing of four workers at the Ford Hunger March, He is called’ to testify before the grand jury on Monday, March 21. Mayor Murphy’s {police and the sheriffs have been seeking to frame- up Schmies since Bloody Monday, when Ford’s gunmen killed 4 work- ers. They knew of his case before Judge ‘Jefries and waited for him there when he appeyred. All State WASHINGTON, March 18. —Thirty-nine governors of states, to help Hoover starve the workers ,even to the ex- tert of refusing to pass a $125,000,000 road construction bill, declared in telegrams to Senator Bingham “there is no starvation in the United States.” This insulting lie flung into the face of the 12,000,000 unemployed and their families was answered yesterday by the Daily Worker through the publication of facts culled from the capital- ist sheets and taken from the mouthes of capitalist spokes- men admitting millions are starving and that every day workers dié of hunger in the United States. The Daily Worker publishes more of the proof today: Michigan Monday, March 7th four hungry unemployed were shot down in cou blood at the Ford River Rouge plant by Ford-Murphy gunmen, and now when Governor Brucker of Michi- gan is asked if there are any starving in his state, answers: “Facts at hand indicate Michigan well able to care for its own.” The “facts at hand” are the four dead unemployed. This is how Michigan takes “care of its own.” It is hard to beat Michigan, and es- pecially Detroit, “paradise” of Mayor Murphy, for the number of deaths The workers of De roit are ready to defend Schmies ami fight against any attempt of up. . The workers of Detroit conducting their own investigat pn of the kil- ling and they are a work- ers’ mass trial which will be held Friday, March 25, at Cass Technical School, Corner Vernor Highway and of constitutional guarantees of Negro rights because that would require a civil war against the white ruling class to carry through. Just as Broun made his approval of Negro lynching in the name of “peace,” he now attempts to head off the mass hatred of Japanese imperialism by appeals not to “provoke Japan to war,” and the Japanese Socialist party is now openly supporting the war of its imperialism. And this treacherous mur- derers support is given with the excuse that it is a war in the interes’ of “civilization and peace.” American and Japanese imperialisms have the sharpest antagonisms over the division of the loot in China. But American imperialism is in full agreement with Japanese imperialism as against the Chinese people, against the Chinese revolution, against the Japanese working class, and above all against the Soviet Union. American imperialism is trying by all pressure, trickery, and provocation to bring about war between Japan and the Soviet Union. American imperialism is itself, independently ex- ploiting, oppressing, and enslaving the Chinese masses. American impe- rialism suppresses with blood and iron the efforts of the workers to rouse the masses in this country against Japanese imperialism. This is the significance of the murderous police clubbing and shoot- ing in Chicago against the 5,000 workers who gathered at the Tribune Tower building to denounce the Japanese imperialist murderers at the doors of the Japanese consulate. ‘The pacifists and renegades who plead that the mass hatred of Jap- anese imperialism creates a danger of war, themselves carefully avoid all collision with either Japanese or American imperialism, The revolutionary workers who denounce Japanese imperialism and its mass murder, who support the mass movement for boycott of Japanese trade, who tell the official representatives of Japanese imperialism that their presence in the country is a stinking offense in the nostfils of all decent people—these workers find they must also face the bullets of Am- erican police even at the doors of that most “anti-Japanese” capitalist paper, “The Chicago Tribune.” Only the revolutionary mass struggle can halt or delay the outbreak of the world war for which imperialism has ‘completely set the stage. Only revolutionary mass protests can cause the war-makers to hesitate as they balance on the brink of a new, unexampled world conflagration. And only the revolutionary workers, following the leadership of the Com- munist Party, actually challenge the war plans of. both Japanese and American imperialism and come into physical collision with all camps of the imperialist war-makers. That is the meaning of the demands that have come from the masses, to really take up the boycott of the Japanese murders, and the ousting of their representatives from the country. That'is the meaning of the slogans to defend the Chinese people against the robber war of Japanese imperialism, to defend the Chinese Soviets, the only organizrs and leaders of the Chinese masses, to defend the Soviet Union, fatherland of the workers of the world. The bullets of the Chicago police last Saturday proved the revolutionary efficacy of these slogans against both Japanese and American imperialists. Rank and File Miners Lead N.M.U. Discussion on Tasks PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Ap-| The questions’ being taken proximately 225 delegates, ,vank and file miners, repre- ‘senting National Miners Union on the present situation in the coal industry, and the tasks of the Na- | (ADDITIONAL NEWS ON PAGE 3) SER EREEEEEemne PARTY COMRADES JIN A.F.L, MUST BE AT MEETING MONDAY. A meeting of all comrades, mem- Western Pennsyivania, Central | Pennsylvania, the Anthracite, Ohio, West Virginia, Minois, | Indiana, and the metal mivi the’ APL. unions, @ill be Held! areas of Michigan and Minne- (his.coming Monday, March 21, at 8 sota are helping to make class .p.m. in the. Workers Center, second struggle history in the Third j float. Tt is absolutely imperative and National Convention of the Na- \oaeiee ne pee Hah pd tional Miners Union now going ent. on at Pythian Hall, Pittsburgh. Sea iry eo fore ove up at the convention are: Report | Second Avenue. UPHOLSTERERS GO ON STRIKE Boss Broke Agreement Union Asks Support | NEW YORK—Uphoilsterers of the Hyman Forin Upholstering Company, Atlantic Ave. and Second St., Brook- lyn, have gone on strike after the boss broke an agreement made with the workers some time ago. The upholsterers are not organized in a union. They won the agreement through a shop committee, which is now leading the strike. The Furniture Workers Industrial Union calls upon ali upholsterers who possibly can to join their fellow workers on the picket line every morning at 7:30 and help them win. Party Speakers Conference Today Led by Weinstone | The first of a series of confer- ence for aJl Party speakers will be held this Saturday, March 19, at 4 pm. at 35°E. 12th St. Comrade | Weinstone wil! lead the discussion on “War”, how the Party speakers | should present the entire war sit- uation to the masses and how to make it one of the outstanding is- sues in the ‘coming presidential election campaign. All Party |speakers should register and at- tend these highly important con- ferences. of jobless suicides. We can just pick a few now. Last summer Mrs. Box, an ‘unemployed -widow: with~ MASS TRIAL 'Mass Starvation in s Refutes Lies of 39 Governors Senate last year that at least 1,000 people die every day in the United §$tates from starvation. If Senator Bingham had just taken the trouble to get the Senate Com~ mittee records of Dec. 28, 1931, he would find the following statement by the good capitalist supporter, William Hodson, executive director of the Welfare Council of New York City. “Relief in New York City now is on what might be called a disaster basis . . . the spectre of starvation faces millions who never were out of work before.” cost, Bloody Blair, Harl posted gun thugs, at all buying groceries for relief. defeated the attack by buying fe it in by underground routes. by starvation, for the number of|issued a call to all workers’ organizations to protest the out- hungry workers, or for the number rages attempt to starve striking min- ers, and to answer it with intensified children, went to the relief station | mittee declared that despite all ob-) and told them she was’ starving. ‘they refused her food. One of tne Detroit capitalist newspapers sent out its special writer, Garnet’ Warfel, to cover just a few cases of starva- tion. He writes: “From a cheerless, barren apart- ment at 2207 Eighth Ave., where five children went all day Thurs- day without food, comes a feeble request . . . I’ve been hungry so much of the time and I sit here every day and watch the children,” said the mother, Mrs. George El- liott, She just sits and watches her children starve as the bosses have refused her food. “Michigan well able to take care of her own.” “Roy, she said, “my oldest boy had a bad headache from not eat- ing.” In Ford-Murphy’s Detroit, and in Brucker’s Michigan there are millions of Roy’s with disease creeping on them because they have nothing to eat. Illinois Governor Emmerson of Illinois ad- mitted there was “destitution but he Genied starvation. When starving workers appeared at.one of Emmer- son's relief agencies in Chicago they were shot at by the police. Charity organizations, doctors in the Cook County Hospital, admit that there is wholesale starvation in Chicago. On January 24 a story appeared in the New York Times from Chicago, which said: ‘Chicago and the rest of Illinois are experiencing one of the gravest financial crisis in recent years. “Nearly 500,000 persons in Chi- cago and the rest of Cook County face the prospect of restitution within a week’s time, and several down-state communities are in the throes of ‘moratoriums,’ with an almost complete shutdown of busi- ness activities in financial institu- tions. .So the record p! ur Every worker will remember the declaration of Senator Caraway made in the stacles, every penny coming in will reach. strikers in the form of relief. Fake relief activities of the United Mine Workers of America collapsed yesterday with the announcement by Shelihorse of the UMWA that their relief funds (supposedly used for re- lief but actually for strikebreaking) | are exhausted. The UMWA an- nounced a mass meeting Sunday in Pineville under protection of the gun thug leader, Sheriff Broughton. The National Miners Union is mobilizing miners throughout the strike area to smash the meeting and put into practice the slogans “Drive the scab herding UMWA from the coal fields.” To insure the conviction of all strikers on trial in Bell County court, Judge McDaw last Monday started th epractice of prayer meetings twice daily in his court. At 12 and 4.30 each day a preacher is called in to deliver sermon to the audience of spec- tators, gun, thugs and jury. The “sermons” are directed . against Strikers and the National Miners Union, in an obvious effort to so prejudice the jury so that conviction is assured in advance. Six miners, indicted on first degree murder with Hightower and Jones come up for trial March 24 in the Harlan court. The International Labor Defense been made to secure the release of all fifteen strikers and strike leaders stil in jail on criminal syndicalist charges by payment of a bond premium of $1,000. The Central Strike Commit- tee joins the International Labor De- fense in appealing to all workers to rush contributions for the thousand dollar fund to free the leaders of the Kentucky strike. ATTENTION C. P. MEMBERS All Party members of Section 2 jare urged to report all day Satur- day and Sunday at 418 W. 53d St. to help the Midtown Unemployed Coun- cil in its campaign to counteract the |new fake “Block Aiders” campaign. Bloody Blair of Hodan Tries to Stop Relief to Starve Coal Miners KNOXVELLE, Tenn., March 18 —Deter-| mined to starve the miners back to work at all lan and Wallins Creek with instructions to arrest or kill any member of the Central Relief Committee The Central Relief Committee | has announced arrangements have! Michigan U. Straw Vote Gives Foster Lead Over Fakers ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 18. —William Z. Foster, who was put down as the Communist presiden- tial candidate in the straw vote at the University of Michigan, re-| | ceived 111 votes on March 16. | Observers here consider this an unprecedented totai on this con-j} servative university campus, Foster, whom the Michigan} bosses are trying to frame-up| | after Ford-Murphy gunmen shot} down four unemployed workers, | ran ahead of such capitalist can-| | didates as Garner, Ritchie, Young and Norman Thomas, | | | Hoover, who ran first, polled | i less than 700 votes, | an County Sheriff, has grocery stores in Har- ‘ood outside of Harlan, sending The Relief Committee today Soviet Unio n Queries Japan on Military Moves on Siberian Frontiers Tokyo Officials Threaten Soviet Interests In Railway Unless U.S. S. R. Recognizes Puppet State Declare “Japan Has No Further Explanation to Make” On Troop Concentration on Soviet Borders The Japanese war moves on the Siberian frontiers of the Soviet Union have become’so menacing that yesterday, for the second time within a few weeks, the Japanese Ambassador. at Moscow, Koki Hirota, was interrogated by Soviet Acting Foreign Commissar Karakhan on the intentions of the Japanese Government. A Tokio dispatch to the New York Tribune reports that Karakhan bluntly informed the Japanese Ambassador that “the Soviet Union cannot accept the Japanese explanation of the concentration of Japanese COL SY EEC SDSS “peere eater ree troops along the Soviet border.” | that Japanese “Foreign Office o ‘The Japanese have offered the pre- ficials said today that ‘Japan hfs text that their tremendous troop movements all along the Soviet bor- der were directed at crushing revolts against the Japanese puppet govern- ment in Manchuria, headed by the ex-emprer Henry Pu-yi. There is no doubt that the Japanese aggressions in Manchuria have created the base for such revolts. The Japanese, how- | ever, are utilizing every pretext to send troops to the Soviet borders. The Tribune’s Tokyo dispatch states As Penn. Coal Strike Spreads | the Manchurian border against SCRANTON, Pa., March 18.—Al- though there is a slow response of the employed miners of District 1 due to the policy of confusion of the Maloney-Shuster leadership, the strike generally is spreading. The program of the Rank and File Committees has been well received and is stimulating the strike be- cause of more confidenve in the rank and file leadership. Yesterday at a meeting of over 2,000 miners in Dickson City the MASS PICKETING HOLDING BRONX. “RENT STRIKE NEW YORK, N. A large picket line of tenants striking for lower rents in five houses on Longfellow Ave. between 174th and 175th Sts., marched up and down in front of apartments htat have the appearance of a deserted village. The houses formerly had 150 fam- |illes living in them. Only 17 now remain and 8 of these have received eviction notices. The landlord, in order ot break the strike, has resorted to mass evictions. On one occasion | 80 tenants received dispossess notices at one time. But the landlord is merely biting his nose to spite his | face. He has on his hands 133 empty apartments, and the striking tenants | are determined that not one apart- | ment will be occupied again until the | landlord grants the demands of lower rent. Mass picketing and an open-air | demonstration is scheduled for today. | Neighbors from the section are called | to join both, | FORESIGHTEDNESS OF EST HIGHWAY....” ‘ AND CHICAGO POLICE. COURAGEOUSLY AND I SHALL WRITE A LET- TER 10 THE COMMISSIONER OF LINCOLN PARK AND TO THE POL'CE COMMISSI EXPRESSING MY APPRECIATIO “IT IS WITH THE DEEPEST REGRET THE JAPANESE CONSUL’) AND THE NAME OF THE JAPANESE NATION HAS BECOM r WITH SUCH AN AFFAIR ON CHICAGO'S GREAT- PRECIATION OF THE BRAVERY, ABILITY AND THE LINCOLN THEY HAVE PARK ACT? ER ALLMAN, Mit! AFFRONTED So declared Yoshio Muto, Japanese consul.in Chicago from his office in the Tribune Tower. The praise of the representa- DIST. ORG. DEPARTMENT. | tive of the bloody Japanese imperialism of the Chicago police Murderous Attack on the Chicago Anti-War By BILL GEBERT. ‘ CHICAGO.—"I WANT TO EXPRESS MY AP- jis well earned. Mayor Cermak Demonstration { | | acting for the bankers and in-| | dustrial lords of the city deserves every word of that praise) jand more, The Chicago government jonstration against war in the dealt with the peaceful dem- same manner as the Japanese} |imperialist government deals with the workers and peasants | in Japan. The Democratic mayor of Chicago cannot lag be- | | hind the terroristic |cago Negro and white workers methods of the Japanese imperialists. POLICE ATTACK. | How. thé peaceful, unarmed demonstration of 5,000 Chi-| } , Students and Chinese masses | | were attacked was described by the Chicago Evening Post,| March 12, under the headline “Mounted 2olice Charge Crowd. Heads Battered.” » “THREE LINCOLN PARK POLICEMEN WERE SHOT, ONE POSSIBLY FATALLY, SCORES OF PER- ' (OONTINUED ON PAGE TAREE) | two Glen Alden strikes upon Tom- 1) ellef contributions, The Rettet Com- Rank and File Influence Gains representative of the rank and file Spoke and was well received. He | urged the miners to organize the | strike better, to elect rank and file | strike committees and to organize relief committees. The aggressive | organization tactics of the Rank | and File Committees have forced the Maloney-Shuster leadership on the defensive, placing all responsi- | bility for the sell-out of the last | achek who got a job but whom | Maloney and Shuster never exposed or attacked before. Maloney and Shuster are trying | to use radical phrases to regain | the confidence of the miners. The | rank and file is succeeding in de- veloping independent leadership | and the miners are adopting its pro- gram. At a meeting of over a thousand | | ports that Karakhan asked Mr. |The dispatch reports Mr. | Soviet system by the masses of Ou | ruling class developed the cap: further explanation to make.’ ” U. S. S. R. Forced to Strengtlen Border Garrisons The Japanese concentration troops on the Manchurian-Sovie: and Korean-Soviet borders has foréed the Soviet Union to strengthen tis garrisons along these frontie: The Japanese are now using this f: excuse their violation of the s- mouth Treaty of 1905 with the rypo- critical argument that since Soviet Union “was concentratin troops on her borders, Japan entitled to do likewise.” Th’ argument of the Japanese impe! ists is indirect opposition to the! first explanation that the troop cor centration was directed at revolis o the puppet Manchurian government. Tokyo Official Threat Soviet Interests in Railway The Tribune dispatch further re- Hi- rota “for further explanation of the new ‘independent’ Manchuri: attempting to establish a between Japan's seizure of M ria and the voluntary adoption the Mongiia. The Japanese Amlgassador pre- tended that because Outer Mongolia has joined the Soviet system, Outer Mongolia had become a part of the Sov! Uniou. This is tantamount to saying that Japan is a part of the United States because the Japanese st system (under a feudal-capitalist regime following the bombardment of : | Jape miners in Olyphant consisting of | Hints are ae three locals, Eddie Creek, Mike | oie. bores yee ; | y Preach pacer trat pean | Tokyo officials again threatened tise Gpidets’ jeosaeaeal AS eek ‘a | Soviet interests in the Chinese East- rank and file strike committee of ee eiies paaieatne di bevagpiand on: twenty-five. or tonight the Rank | “thot ine only wan ne Roe and File Committee has called a pio Adit ater atin a\he strike meeting at Archbald and for | Protect her half-interest in the Sunday in Jessup. | Governor Pinchot has sent state troopers against the strikers and dynamite plots are being invented to demoralize the strike. | Chinese Eastern Railway, which crosses northern Manchuria, was to enter into relations with the new | Manchurian state by de fcto recogni- tion or to conquer northern Man- churia.” We Ask You for 50 Cents Half dolars have started coming in. 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