The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 25, 1932, Page 3

os DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1932 shes 0 Protest Must Save the Rueggs | from the Kuomintang Butchers | | Negro and White Mothers of Class War Prisoners in Joint Tour of the Country (Cable by Inprecorr) SHANGHAI, March 23—-Paul Kuegg, Secretary of the Pan Pacifir| | |Trade Union Secretariat, and his wife, have again been transported =| | Nanking where the final verdict is expected in the next few days. The International Defense Committee has sent a protest telegram to awed Nanos kine rors Japanese “Socialists” Vote Credits for Robber War Against China’ Betray Working Class; Help Prepare Reacti- onary War Against the Building of Socialism in U. S. S. R. | The Japanese “socialists” again showed their true faces | as enemies of the working class when on Tuesday, March 22, their representatives in the Japanese Diet voted for war credits for the robber war against China and the plans of Japanese imperialist for armed intervention against the successful build- ing of Socialism in the Soviet Union. ‘The bill for army appropriations was Passed UNANIMOUSLY. In an attempt to cover up this shameless betrayal of the working class, the parliamentary spokesman of the “socialist” groups, Shiro Ka- waski, declared that the government loan to cover military expenditures would be a further burden on the Japanese proletariat, Nevertheless, he voted for the war credits as did the rest of the “socialists” in the Diet This action of the Japanese “so- cialists” repeats the betrayal of the working class by the Second Socialist International during the last World War. The American socialist party is a section cf the Second Interna- tional. It is wholly in line with the present role cf the Second Interna- tional as lackeys of world imperialism and war inciters against the Soviet Union. Right from the beginning of the Japanese aggressions in Manchu- ria and China, the Japanese “social- ists” have defended bloody Japanese imperialism. The General Secretary of the Siakai Minseito (Japanese so- cil democratic party) has declared: “The intervention in Manchuria is not of an imperialist nature, be- cause eyen socialist Japan will have to fight for the necessary raw ma~ Yerial for its industry, whereas it is now in the hands of America, Great Britain and Russia.” The Japanese social democrat, Akamatzu, even more brazenly de- fended the butchery of Chinese prole- tarians by Japanese imperialism, de- claring: “Japan, so poor in raw material, is not at all obliged, for the’ sake of peace, to carry on a semi-star- vation existence, for all eternity, for fear of being called aggressive.” Matsudani, the leader of the “left” centrist party (Rono-Tai-Suto), de- clared: “The events in Manchuria do not comprise an ordinary capitalist war, but the solution of a national prob- lem.” Thus the responsibility for the starvation existence of the Japanese masses is placed by the “socialists” not on the Japanese landlords and capitalists, who rob and oppress the toiling Japanese masses, but With China! The masses are called not to fight against their own oppres- sors, but to help Japanese imperial- ism extend its yoke to include the Chinese masses! League of Nations Plans Imperialist Attack on the jand their government. PA Morgan. “spoke on the radio Wednesday night, asking| * the workers to contribute |nickels and dimes to help the unemployed. Morgan, head of the Wall Street robbers, said this was a good idea, since it would preserve his own billions. His speech was broadcast over a net-work which covered every corner of the country where | Morgan’s companies enforced| lw age cuts, and where Morgan- ‘controlled municipalities shoot loca unemployed workers. Here is the clux of his ap- peal: “We have reached a point where the aid of govern- ments or the gifts of individ- uals, no matter how gener- ous, are insufficient to meet the conditions which have come upon us. So we must all do our bit. The block-aid idea is the right idea—it in- volves going to everybody— to those who have little and those who have much—and asking for help for relief work in such small amounts that no one who has seen with his own eyes or heard from others of the greatness of the need wlil hesitate to give the sum asked for.” “We must all do our bit,” says Mr. Morgan, in the words of the last World War when the workers did their “bit” by having their guts shot out on the battlefield, and Mr. Morgan did his “bit” by watching his accounts swell by about $10,- 000,000,000 in war profits. Mr. Morgan now wants the 12,000,- 000 unemployed to do their “bit’—to eat less, to starve longer—and Mr. Morgan will do his bit by transferring the burdens to the ‘“Block-Aid” system, collecting ten cent and whose wages Mr. Morgan has cut. The capitalist class with its “Block-Aid” starvation system, headed by the most powerful imperialist banker, Mr. Mor- gan, has come out directly {against any unemployment re- lief or unemployment insur- ance paid by the capitalists Mr. Chinese Soviet Districts: Shanghai ey Admits Increasing Diffi- culties for Kuomintang Traitors in Central China Provinces if Infuriated Chinese workers in Nanking yesterday smashed the seats and windows of a theatre in that city where a film | giving the Japanese version of the fighting at Shanghai was being shown. The workers stormed the manager's office, and| threw eyecutives of the theatre out of a second story «window. | | ‘They shouted denunciations of the *—~—~ | Kuomintang leaders who had permit- ted the showing of the anti-Ch nese film. ‘ ‘The Japanese military at Shanghai are threatening] a further advance into China on the usual pretext of acting in “self-defense.” No attempt has been made so far by the Nan king traitors to continue the so-called “peace”’p arleys with the Japanese invaders. A Shanghai dispatch to the New York Tribune admits that these traitors are afraid of the deep mass resentment . “An opinoin was freely expressed among the public that the Chinese military leaders were anxious to es- cape participating in the parleys, be- lieving they would be subjected to criticism regardless of the outcome.” League Commission Prepares Attack On Red Districts The League Commission which is now in Shanghai is preparing the ground for imperialist praticipatoin in the attack by Kuomintang armies on the Chinese Soviet districts, un- der the pretext og “investigating” the situation at Hankow, Central China city around which Chinese Red Ar- mies are operatnig. A Shanghai dis- patch to the New York Times de clares: “It is known that Japan has been urging an immediate survey of the Hankow situation, ... The Hankow situation is admittedly dangerous though local Chinese authorities for many weeks have exerted their utmost efforts to avoid a Sino-Jap- anese clash by rigorously repressing boycotting, forbidding armed Chi- nese soldiers and police within three blocks of ‘the Japanese con- cession and taking other precau- tionary measures, FA paresis Shiozawa, who opened Shanghai clash, sailed trom Nanking for Hankow yesterday aboard his flagship, the Ataka, Presumably bound on a regular Yangtse inspection trip. Large quantities of military supplies were landed at the Japanese concession ‘Tuesday. “The Communist menace to the Hankow area continues serious. A Red force which was repulsed in an attack on Tsaoshiu and which then besieged Kaingshan to the northeast, where it was again re- pulsed, han now settled around Lunghisintsin, midway between the | two cities.” The dispatch admits the import- ance of the Nanking forces to crush the revolutionary movement in Hu- peh province by pointing out an Am- erican missionary and an American steamship captain who was captured while transporting munitions to the tives by the Red forces “less than }eighty miles from Hankow,” in spite of efforts by the Nanking military to release them. A dispatch to the New York Tele- gram reports that the Nanking gov- ernment is now to make an attempt to “kidnap” .the .Americans. from their captors. |The dispatch admits: “All governmental (Nanking) agents were helpless, since Baker was held in Kienli Province, where Communists haye complete con trol.” o Kienli Province covers some 10,000 square miles in Central China. This gives an idea of the vast extent of the territory in which the revolutionary Chinese workers and peasants already have overthrown the rulue of the Kuomintang and imperialists. April Issue of “Soviet Russia Today”, Is Anti- War Issue; Now on Sale The April issue “of “Soviet Russia Today” has just come off the press and is an issue exposing the war plans of the Imperialists and point- ing out the successful building of socialism, with the need for American workers to defend the outpost of the international workingclass, the Five Year Plan and the Soviet Union. Among the artciles are the follow- ing: “Who Wants to iDsarm?”, Th Workers’ Republic,” “The Second Five Year Plan,” “The Fillipov’s Pay Envelope,” “‘Trotsky’s Ammunition to Anti-Soviet Press, Brother!ood of Nationalities.” “Ford's Bloody Mon- day Is Copy of Czar’s Bloody Sun- day,” and important letters from workers in the Soviet factories. The issue furnisnes splendid proof of the peaceful building of socialism in the Soviet, Union and the move- ments of Japan and world Imperial- ism to defeat it Nanking forces are still held cap-| | Morgan’s radio speech is a new, drastic step in the war | to perpetuate hunger, to smash \the standard of living of the ‘American workers. All work- ;es must answer! Intensify the | struggle against hunger and wage cuts! Build the Unem- ployed Councils! Spread the fight in the A. F. of L. for unemployment insurance! (Rear about Morgan’s blood- soaked profits on page 3.) ‘PHILA. MASSES TO, PROTEST FRAMING OF NEGRO YOUTH Three Demonstrations To Be Held Monday PHILADELPHIA, March 24—Three mass protest demonstrations for the defense of Willie Brown, Negro youth framed up on a charge of murdering a white girl, will be held on Monday March 28th, 6 p. m. at the following places: Fourth and Federal Sts.; 13th and Thompson Sts. and 39th and Folsom Sts. The International Labor Defense calls these demonstra- .| tions to mobilize a movement against the legal lynching which the Phila- delphia bosses and police want to carry through against this Negro boy. In a letter to hte ILD, the sister of Willie Brown, appeals to the work~- ers to fight against the vicious frame up of Willie Brown. The letier reads: “Dear Friend ILD: “Ty Arline, sister of Willie Brown, want to tell the workers and friends of the ILD how the bosses’ detectives paid some stool pigeons in the neigh- borhood to come up my home and bulldoze me into saying things that might hurt my poor innocent brother. T chased these buzzards out bécause nobody can convince me that Willie is guilty. Thanks to, the Interna- tional Labor Defense for exposing the brutality of the boss police in toruring an innocent Negro child like Willie. I will always help the ILD to defend all hte workers, black and white,a nd free Willie immediately. “ARLINE PIERCE.” The Internaitnoal Labor Defense calls upon the workers to demon- strate aganist this attack on Willie Brown which is aimed against hte Negro masses and the entire work- ing class. Send in protest resolutions demanding the immediate release o: Willie Brown Kelly and Judge MsDevitt, Cily Hall, Phila., Pa. What have you do dollar campaign? dollar pieces from the workers | | |Morgan tor More Wage Cuts and Hunger 1A DIME WILL HELP THIS POOR FELLOW” Morgan and His Billions we is this J. P. Morgan who wanjs the workers, | now living on starvation rations, to feed themselves | through the “Block-Aid” system? He is a mysterious figure, member of a family who have been sucking up the wealth produced by the American workers for nearly a century. He is the outstanding figure of American imperialism, typical of capitalism which concentrates huge masses of wealth into the hands of a few, leading to crisis, unemployment, starvation’ and, imperialist war. Mr. Morgan is the most powerful force in the American government. He and his clique speak, not Hoover. Hoover is the mouthpiece, the figurehead, Morgan's greatest power lies in the fact that he controls the five largest banks in the United States, banks closely intertwined with the leading, basic in- dustries, banks that run the country. The Morgan‘and allied banks are the Bankers’ Trust, Guaranty Trust, First National, National City and Chase National Banks, with resources of $8,258,- 000,000! In addition, the Morgan group is interlocked by means of interlocking directorates with insurance com- panies, the combined resources of which in 1929 were $12,500,000,000, or 65 per cent of all insurance’ assets. The House of Morgan, at which J. P. Morgan (the one who spoke over the radio and told the starving workers to feed themselves) controls corporations with @ net value of $74,000,009,000. Let’s see about some of the companies Mr. Morgan and his 17 partners control. The leading ones are: The United States Stel Corporation, where Mr. Mor- & Reading Coal that the Hoover insurance compan: United States but Japanese bosses. ternational Harves Locomotive, Associated Dry Goods, International Agri- cultural, General Steel Casting and Montgomery-Ward | combined assets, panies Mr. Morgan has slashed wages! Mr. Morgan has a controlling interest in many of | the leading railroads, and shared heavily in the $220,- 000,000 railroad wage-cut. ners, will get a big slice of the $2,000,000,000 “dole” ‘Through Morgan banks, J. P. Morgan has his hand in the controlling mechanism of nearly every leading corporation in the United States. Above all, the House of Morgan is dominant in in- vestment and banking operations, not only in the has billions of investments in Germany and through- out Europe; in China, where the imperialists, headed by Japanese imperialism, are waring against the Chi- nese people, moving forward for an attack against the Soviet Union, Mr. Morgan has huge investments. Morgan & Co. are the leadfmg bankers for Japanese imperialism, having floated around $400,000,000 for the“ In the coming imperialist war, which Morgan (and his fellow bankers) are most prominent in preparing, Morgan looks forward to greater profits. that in the last world war he reaped a rich, golden harvest, while the workers lost 10,000,000 dead on the battlefields and 20,000,000 wounded and maimed. gan gave the workers many wage-cuts, and then on Oct. 1, 1931, presented all the steel workers with an additional wage slash of 10 per cent. The profits Mr. Morgan has wrung out of the United States Steel Corporation are fabulous. Billions were made by him and his class in organizing the steel trust; billions were made out of the blood and slaughter of the last world war; and, when the-crisis hit, Mr. Morgan in- sisted that the steel workers pay by wage-cuts, just as he tells the unemployed to feed themselves now, to save Mr. Morgan's billions. General Motors, Kennecott Copper, Standard Brands, Texas Gulf Sulphur, Continental Oil, Pullman Co., In- WORKERS REPORT HOW MINERS LIVE IN SOVIET UNION Tell Rank and File Over A. F. L. Heads Paul Baum, a miner from Western Pennsylvania, reported to seven lo- cals of the U.M.W.A. in the Anthra- cite of the tour of the last workers’ delegation and the conditions of the workers, and especially of the miners in the Soviet Union, who have the six-hour day and all protection for their health and safety. The locals carried through their meetings despite the opposition of the officials, and from Shenandoah, Pa., the miners have written to the F.S.U. acecpting the invitation given to them by the “Young Communar” from the Donetz Basin. The invita- tion reads in part as follows: “We miners of the pit, “the Young Communar,” numbering 3,127 men, form a division of the great social~ ist construction and we are prepar- ing the celebration of May First by developing social competition, or- ganizing ne“ shock brigades, by me- to District Attornay | you ail 1: chanizing i and strengthening the country of Soviets. The urgeois acwspapers feed id of dope on the Sovict Un'pn—cumping, slave labor, etc, In rey y to all these screams of the #ciktng-class enentles—thereforimist tade won mislecders, we worker: Hrclare buol we are oonslructing a In 1919, when workers fought a the steel trust, J. accord.” Aid” system. great strikes against wage-cuts, when 50,000,000 steel president of the United States Steel Corporation: “Heartiest congratulations on your stand for the open shop, which I am, as you know, absolutely in Elbert H. Gary directed’ and approved the cold- blooded murder of strike organizers. Now J. P. Morgan, scab herder, bitter enemy of the workers, is “absolutely in accord” with the “Block- he ster, General Electric, Philadelphia & Iron, General Asphalt, Baldwin $6,000,000,000—and in all these com~ | Mr. Morgan, and his part- government voted to the railroads, jes, and other big corporations. throughout the world. J. P. Morgan Remember 5,000,000 workers were involved in militant battle against Morgan and P. Morgan wired to Elbert H. Gary, Morgan Speaks! »* P. MORGAN, head of the House of Morgan, which has the controfling * interest in corporations worth more than $74,000,000,000, has come out of his “seclusion” to speak to the hungry millions and to tell them—te help themselves by living off one another and not to demand unemploy- ment insurance from the rich and their government. J. P, Morgan never speaks in public. Only the most momentous crisis, when his millions are not growing fast enough, when banks begin to col lapse, when whole national finances are crumbling, does Mr. Morgan ap- pear in public to say anything, The last time Mr. Morgan spoke was in London, Then Britain went off the gold standard. Ramsay MacDonald and the “labor government” handed the British workers a cut in the “dole,” a cut in wages that has today netted the British capitalists millions in profist. Now Mr. Morgan speaks again—to the 12,000,000 starving unemployed and their families in this country, to the 1,000,000 workers in the United States Steel Corporation whose wage-cuts went into the pockets of Mr. Morgan; to workers on the railroads, whose wage-cut of $220,000,000 mainly found its way into Mr. Morgan’s pockets. Why did the great J. P. Morgan, the keystone of Wall Street, the leader of the “39” who rule the United States, decide to speak for the “Block-Aid” campaign at this particular time? Hadn't Senator Bingham said that there was “no starvation” in the United States? Then why need Mr. Morgan take the momentous and un- paralleled decision to speak to the “masses” about how to stave off hun- ‘ger—by leaving the profits of the rich intact? The fact is that the economic crisis is growing so deep, the com- plete collapse of a so-called spring revival has been so striking, the grow- ing, gnawing hunger among millions has been increasing so rapidly, the capitalists are going to extreme measures to keep the unemployed from organizing on a working-class, militant basis to demand relief. Mr. Morgan remembers what happened in Michigan, where the un- employed faced death to demand jobs or food. They know bullets will not stop the jobless from organizing. They know unemployment relief is being cut, and they know that new millions are joining the struggle for unemployment insurance. Mr. Morgan does not want to part with one cent of the $74,000,000,000 in the corporations he and his fellow bankers own. Mr. Morgan does not want to part with the hundreds of millions he wrung out of the blood oftheworkers in the last world war. He does not want to provide one centofunemployment insurance from his billions in foreign investments. Morgan, a close friend of the fascist Mussolini, whom he has losned hundreds of millions to enslave the Italian masses, has learned from the master fascist. Every capitalist newspaper headlined the fact that Morgan would speak for the “Block-Aid” system. The “Block-Aid” system, as the Daily Worker has alregdy exposed, is one of the latest. means of throwing nev. burdens on the unemployed and the workers, it is an attempt to blacklist and terrorize the jobless, to force starvation on the unemployed, and to save the huge fortunes and profits of the rich. Morgan’s appearance at the head of the “Block-Aid” campaign is the most decisive proof that the “Block-Aid” system is directed against the workers and is in the interest of the richest, most powerful bankers in the United States, HALF DOLLAR CAMPAIGN New York Maintains Lead and Has Passed 25 Percent Mark — Cleveland Shows Gain ; of 98 Half Dollars . B More than 7,000 half dollars. since M March 16! This seems like a slew of them! fe ee eee oe But the socialist competition to save the Daily Worker demands im: mediate intensification so that this pace can be doubled! And it will be intensified! Every day the half-dollars roll in, in sreater and greater numbers! Each district is beginning to feel the milit- | ancy of real competition—to save the Daily—every organization—and every worker—is being mobilized! New York District has already reached over a quarter of its quota— ,Standing at the top of the list so far. In one day Cleveland sent in 98 “half-dollars—several points in one leap. But these were the only gains Now we must tighten up! Workers, comrades, act now! Help your district in the race to reach its quota! Watch this daily report: i Fd t r gis § a = 33 3 ae lath hatig if cE 3 8 aes Hd bar a on z 9 as $ 655.91 1. Boston 1,851 162 1,689 87 $11,483.78 2. New York 18,803 4,768 14,035 253 827.02 3. Philadelphia 6,437 91 6,346 14 193.74 4, Buffalo 2,818 69 2,112 3.1 256.18 5, Pittsburgh 2,057 69 1,988 34 1,146.71 6. Cleveland 6,273 565 5,708 9. 1,083.13 7. Detroit 6,221 387 5,834 62 1,224.69 8, Chicago 11,232 681 10,551 6 382.09 9, Minneapolis 3,273 36 3,237 1 63.17 10. Kansas City 1,485 ul 1,474 6 10.15 11.N.&S.\Dakota 279 4 279 0. 236.79 12. Seattle 2,351 4 2,327 1 651.46 13. San Francisco 2,708 ul 2,697 4 410.88 15, Connecticut 1,896 218 1,678 13 15.40 16. N.|&|S. Carolina | 260 ; 268 0 89.75 17. South 125 4 131 32 63.75 18. Butte 292 w 213 62 (164.75 19. Denver 492 21 4am 42 $18,959.71 68,225 7,136 61,088 104 146.01 Miscellaneous r ¢ $19,105.72 Socialist Fatherland and shall accom- plish our task, and that with us “la- bor is work of honor, work of glory, work of gallantry and heroism” (Stalin). ; We know what the economic crisis in capitalist countries does to the workers and how capitalist ration- alization affects them—industry shrinks and unemployment and pov- erty grow. A part of the miners who were turned out of their pits in Germany by capitalism and thus doomed to misery, are at the present time work- ing in our mines helping us to build socialism, We know wer are not going to be the only ones to celebrate May First, the proletariat of the world will join with us. We invite you comrade miners, our lass brothers, to come for Md¥ First to the country of Soviets to take part in the celebration and see how we} work and Kye. You will see where is your real vanguard, your shock brigade, the workers’ power and your | fatherland } Old Clothes Bureau for Jobless Workers Has Jim-Crow Policy A brazenly frank statement of the Jim-Crow policy of the New York Clothing Bureau at 57 Bank Street, | which is supposed to help a few of the city's jobless workers to clothe themselves, was blurted out last week by Miss Julia Lathers, directorof the Bureau. But William Hodson, direc- tor of the New York Welfare Council, thinks such a frank statement of policy “regrettable,” and considers it better to keep quiet about the Bu- reau’s Jim-Crow methods, “The Bureau is conducted on non- sectarian lines, but because of many | publicity.” ; SAT, ers to James Hubert, of the New York Urban League, states that “there are many people who would not come if we had free access to the bureau by the colored race.” Have you ordered your bundle of the Anti-War Edition of the Daily Worker for April 2? Questioned about the statement in Better Times, William Hodson said that he was out of the office at the time and “would not willingly give it Is your neighbor at home, or farm a It he ix, e him subscribe to the Daily Rovnost Ludu Oxechoslovak Org. of the C.P., U.S.A. 1510 W. 18th St., Chicago, Hi. A recent survey of Harlem by workerl-investigators shows that of the 240,000 Negroes living in Harlem 90,000 are unemployed. 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