The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 29, 1932, Page 1

{ { \ e \) | | \ | é i » WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central Orga (Section of the Communist International} Emtered as eecund. at New York, N. ¥.. 7 ader the Vol. IX, No, 75_ matter at the Post Uifice act of March 3, 1877 On April 6th---A Mass Answer! b tia. bloody suppression of.thé anti-war demonstration before the Jap- anese Embassy in Washington last Saturday, will arouse the fiercest indignation among the wide masses of the American people. By murderously attacking the American workers, boys and girls, white and colored, the Hoover police emphasized the full collaboration of American imperialism with the Japanese imperialists to suppress revolu- tionary China and carry out armed intervention against the successful building of Socialism in the Soviet Union and against the growing Chi- nese Soviet, districts. All the bourgeois press admits the special brutality and unbridled savagery with which the Washington police attacked this peaceful dem- onstration against Japanese imperialism and its bestial butchery of the Chinese masses, and for the withdrawal of all imperialist armed forces from China. Washington and New York newspapers carry pictures graphically , showing workers being punched and clubbed by the police, knocked un- conscious, kicked and pummelled as they lay on the sidewalks, One photograph in the Washington Times shows five policemen and detectives beating up a girl after hurling her to the pavement. Another photograph in the Washington: Herald shows a detective savagely club- bing @ girl worker. This is cynically captioned “An Unequal Fight”. After the suppression of the demonstration, the Japanese Embassy officials who had watched approvingly from behind partly closed blinds of the Embassy, rushed to congratillate the police. The murderous Jap- anese police in their savage terror against the revolutionary Japanese workers could not have done ‘better. | ‘The clubbing by American police of American workers because they | dare protest against the Japanese imperialist who have dared to unleash @ newrobber war emphasizes the collaboration of United States imperial- , ism with the Japanese imperialist bandits in suppressing the struggles ot their “own” masses. The hiding of police in the basement of the Japanese Embassy, further revealsthis shameless collabroation. Only the war speculators, the munition makers, the hyenas of war | and the most vicious imperialist cliques which seek to justify their own murderous actions against the people of Haiti, Nicaragua, Philippines, ete,, will approve the Japanese slaughter in Shanghai and Manchuria. ‘These same people are the only ones who will attempt to justify the bloody attacks by the police on workers and intellectuals expressing their The threeare Hardy, Siskind |tinue tomorrow (. Tuesday ) indignation against the bestial crimes of Japanese imperialism. | The huge majority of the population of the United States ere against police brutality, against imperialist war, and against the brazen viola- tion of the rights of the people and the cynical declaration that these Tights will again be violated in the future, But silent indignation is not sufficient. Silence only encourages Jap- _ anese imperialism and those who are trying to cover up their crimes. All | honest elements should organize indignant protests against the Japanese | Slaughter of Chinese workers and peasants ,against their monstrous war | provocations against the Soviet Union and against the defense of Jap- | anese imperialism by the American ruling class and its police agents. | On April 6, the day in which American imperialism entered the last world war, the entire country should be swept by a wave of mass dem- onstrations against the effort to plunge the world into a new and bloodier slaughter. Let the Wall Street rulers know that those who labor in the factories, those who. suffer hunger and pain while the rich parasités revel in luxury—will not stand for another world slaughter to enrich the Wall Street bankers. Let them know that those who bleed on the battle fields will not tolerate their criminal war plotting. Let the American impe- rialist bandits and clubbers of American men and women know that we will not tolerate the new robber war which the Japanese imperialists have dared to unleash on thevery borders of the Soviet Union. Let the anger of the masses be aroused throughout the country. Let them express their determination not to die for the profits of Morgan, Rockefeller, and the | other Wall Street parasites. Into the streets-on April 6. Stop te robber war against China! Demand the withdrawal of all imperialist’ armed forces from China! Defend the Chinese masses! De- fend the Soviet Union! Support the revolutionary struggles of the Chi- nese and Japanese masses! Build Solidarity with 50 Cents to the Daily Worker IHE bosses stick together. Uniformed thugs in Washington rallied Saturday to the defense of the Japanese butchers when their clubs rained blows down upon the heads of workers protesting against the armed invasion of Manchuria the at- atck against the Chinese masses, and the war pro- vocations against the Soviet Union. In Detroit, in Kentucky, in Alabama, in New York City, all over the United States, and all thru the world, the bosses are showing their united front of terror and starvation against the workers. Only. the united front of the workers can smash this capitalist machine which grinds out death and starvation. The solidarity of the workers, built up by their nationwide paper, the Daily Worker, will break through the wall of boss press lies and hoss police terror. The Daily Worker is stil] menaced by suspension because of lack of funds. Half dollars are coming in, but not fast enough. At the Daily Worker banquet in New York Sunday night, $500 was do- nated to the Daily Worker, but even that cannot fill the big hole in ou# funds. We have debts, comrades. We must pay them immediately, or we go under. We cannot go under at this time. The workers cannot at this time lose the only nationwide paper that rallies (he masses to free the nine Scottsboro Negro boys. Your coupon is on page three. Cut it out. 7 | it with a half dollar to the Daily Worker, 50 |... 18th St. Get your neighbor or shopmate to con- tribute a half dollar, and mail a dollar bill in with thecoupon. Act now, comrades, and build up the solidarity of the working class. i EW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH ARCH 29, 1932 bey Rs THUGS CLUBBING ‘& UNG oe IN DEFENSE OF J JAPA -Ed Rrumist Party U.S.A. Wall Street Forced the U.S. Into Last War on April 6th. Make This a Day of Struggle Against Imperialist War “ory | EDITION NID INE SE at ng hinese mas; DEMONSTRATIONS IN ALL CITIES TO PROTEST AGAINST SCOTTSBORO LYNCH VERDICT | Pittsburgh and Canadian Organizations Pro- test Decision of Alabama S oP ies Court Upholding Scottsboro Death S Sentences ‘Tens of Thousands to Raise Demand April 6 for Freedom of Negro Boys | Tens of thousands of work-| arranged t or April | ers pouring into the streets on . ce a : 2 wil on | April 6 to demonstrate their| {he geottahen. bo prac | anger against the imperialist | against the im |war inciters will protest the| tions, against obber war on | vicious decision of the Alabama Su-| China, for def the Chinese | preme Court in upholding the lynch | masses and for the viet Union. verdicts against 7 of the 9 innocent | WASHIN GTO N, D. Cc, and Kennedy. They are held The judge was openly | textile and March 28—Hearing on case of four workers arrested|fourth worker, was unable to in Saturday’s demonstration jandcharged with assault, took | | place today, with one of the|derous police attack on the Embassy,whic h could only occur with the permission of the Japanese | workers still in the hospital. | demonstrators. |The three workers who were | able to appear in court pleaded not guilty and demanded a ‘jury trial which has been set for April 6—Anti-War Day. appear because ofinjuries re- ceived as a result of the mur- ap William Dorsey, Negro worker, on a vagrancy charge. Joan Hardy, young. worker |of Baltimore, who was beaten In addition to these four, ten | unconscious by the police and other workers were arraigned | kicked as ae lay on the pave- today on charges of disorderly ; ment, defended the right of the conduct and parading without; workers to demonstrate and a permit. The trial will con-|exposed American imperialism in its support of the Japanese | hostile utchery of the s-|§ Scottsboro Negro children, Negro | the |on $500 bail. Ivan Kastrow, the|and vicious to the workers. |es. eee bee! Aes eee eer A ui ee si al g that TOF | Che court also tried to frame} So openly brutal was the po-| scainst the working class, directed| lice att on the demonstra- | with particular brutality against the , that some of the lo-| Negro masses, is a part of the war | cal bourgeois press have been | preparations of the American ruling | | class and of the starvation offensive Tee . ake -2 m4 forced te make a gesture Of| .cainst the working class. Anti-war condemning the police. — monstrations already have been A mass protest meeting has |} been called for Friday night, | |§ Kentucky Strike April 1, 1006 East St., ton M Hall, sicians’ | N.W., Washing- | at Leaders Are | Released on Bail ON DELEGATION A.F.L. Unions to En-| dorse Delegate to Soviet Union NEW YORK, N. Y.—The campaign of the Friends of the Soviet Union to send 50 worker delegates, elected by members themselves, to the May 1 celebration in the Soviet Union is penetrating A. F. of L. locals. A railroad worker were elected last week. The textile delegate was elected by the workers in his mill in Kensing- ton, Pa., and will be endorsed by six A. F, of L. locals, including the Full | Fashioned Hosiery Workers and the | Carpet Weavers, despite the resist- ance put up by the officials. This worker has been active in developing struggles of the hosiery workers for better conditions. Dur- ing the last/strike has was among the leading workers who exposed the strike-breaking role of Muste and the officials of the United Textile Work= ers. In Minneapolis the railroad train- men in the Northwestern shop have elected M. O. Jacobson, a brakeman, as their delegate. The local union | of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen ordered his nomination and have decided to donate $300 to cover the expense of the trip. Both of these delegates are ex- servicemen and their election shows that the interest in the Soviet Union is becoming deeper among the former soldiers and among the activé work- ers in the ranks of the A. F, of L. unions. BRONX ANTI-WAR MEETS THURSDAY AND FRIDAY NITE Prepares for Huge Demonstration On April 2nd Under the leadership of the United Front Anti-War Committee of the Bronx to mobilize the workers of the Bronx, three indoor mass meetings will be held Thursday and Friday, March 31, and April Ist, for a /ig open air demonstration and parade | Lovett Elihu Root, Jr, Myron C..Taylor, Colonel Arthur on April 2nd, against imperialist war | Woods—bankers army officers and skypilots—and of avd for the defense of the ie, ‘s@ Harvey D. Gibson and Wilton Lloyd-Smith— Union, The meeting on ‘Thursday, wit be ie held at 1610 Boston Road. On Friday,}t>ey do not contribute to the relict fund. That they at 3882 Third Ave. and at 2700 Bromg | ill find out where an employed worker works and Park East, All meetings Ae @ hove the firm exert pressure, even to the point of Heluentening to tire hiny 8 p.m, Gov ernor Horton Defends Attack On Students; | PINEVILLE, Ky., March 28,— RAILROAD AND | Prosecutor Incites Lync shy Marine Wer TEXTILE WORKER Violence A gainstStudents Endorse Congress: Raises “Red Issue” | 1—Student delegation interviewing Governor Laffoon to into Harlan County. they have no rights in Tennessee. state highway,, demand investigation. 4—Natiorial Conference of National Student League now York hears report from Homer Barton on Kentucky telegrams to Kentucky, Tennessee and Washington. . 5 > “We don’t want a bunch of Bolsheviks, Communists terfering with the peace of Tennessee citizens.” . students who interviewed him yesterday. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 2—Governor Horton of Tennessee tells students they are Bolsheviks and | endo: 3—Delegation makes application for Federal injunction to clear the. inetr- | ter 4—Entire delegation to appear Wednesday before Senatorial committee to | @ gram of protest to Senator Costigan and Gov. Laffoon; college students and instructors throughout the country to send protest . Governor Henry H. Horton of Tennessee answered the demands of the students delegation that their constitutional rights be guaranteed and that ! they be allowed to travel in the staeof Tennessee as follows: KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—An open incitation to ly: against the National.Student League delegation to the Ken-/ and discuss the Congress with other | fact of their huge troop con- | tucky coal fields was the gist of a statement made by Walter | seamen B. Smith, Bell County prosecutor to the committee of four *. The students went to Pineville from Knoxville for an ex-| gre: planation of the denial to them of elementary rights guaranteed | » |to citizens under the United States constitution of travelling | | along public highways and crossing from one state to another. The Four students had been sent by the student delegation cers. | Plan Shindig April 1st | To Greet Congress NEW YORK—At a a mass meeting demand entrance | | unday night 1 e workers | |of New York adopted a resolution | g the World Unity Congress | | being called in Hamburg by the In- of Seamen and Harbor | + | Workers, May 20th, and plans were | to give the Congress a | ng at an International | in session in New dig r to be held April 1st, Irving | trip; sends tele at 8 pm, The mass meeting in New York | adopted a resolution, which reads in| | par | sity fight! issues call for is meeting of creating gnizes the neces- | international | all Marine Trans- and there the Or anarchists in- | 2°Ces: ganizing the World Congress “In order that all marine workers shall know of the Con we | and longshoremen in all! ports we may come to, and win them | | for International Unity. “Aboard ship we shall form Con- | ss committees for the purpose of | «, y taking part in the prepara- for and collection of finances | he coming Congress. Long live the Internatio darity of the Marine Work “On to the World Unity Co for | al Soli- | | Morgan, Thomas and the Block-Fakers By I, AMTER One of the most shameful acts of deceiving the work- ers, and the people in. the neighborhoods is being put across in New York City. Although on the one hand, Roosevelt denies that there is any starvation in the state of New York, the statistics and capitalist papers record cases daily of starvation, suicide, crime, etc., caused by hunger and starvation. J. P, Morgan knows that the situation is desperate— or as he said in his “only” radio talk: “We have reached a point where the aid of governments or the gifts of individuals, no matter how generous, are insuificient to meet the conditions which have come upon us. So we must all do our bit.” So Morgan tries to escape the oblivation that he and his feliow capitalists have, te maintain the unemployed in the country, and workin; hand in hand with, the other fakers, liars, grafters and racketeers of the Emergency Relief Committee, he pro- proposes to shift the burden on to the backs of the workers in the ‘neighborhoods. This is to be done by means of theblok-aid scheme. Hijacking; Blackmailing Is the Method. ~ The committee composed of such leadinsy lights as George F. Baker, Cornelius N. Bliss, H. P. Davison, Dr. Fosdick, General Harbord, E. R. Harriman, Robert A. ‘oses to highjack the workers in the neighborhoods, nidate them and.threaten them with discredit if him, ia obviow are instructed to make note of “agitators” and trouble- makers.” The plan of organization provides: 1) trict shall have a district chairman. “ zen of high standing”. In each distri will also be a district secretary. “This paid secretary will be a carefully selected so-called ‘white collar worker’.(!) He will be a man who has held a responsible place in the business or professional world. He will be a man who has commanded a substantial salary or return from his business interests.” These people are not only selectéd from among the tens of thousards of office and bank executives who have been thrown out of work owing to the crisis, but forces will also be obtained from other sources. Thus the bulletin of the “block community organization” in- structs the district secretaries to “call upon large in- surance agencies, bond houses and other firms employ- ing large groups of salesmen and endeavor to obtain the co-operation of such organizations in covering the vari- ous districts.” “Block-aiders”, it says, “recruited from sales forces will be experienced solicitors.” And if any of these “experienced” forces working for the insurance companies should refuse—out they go into the ranks of the unemployed! This organization is not a temporary institution, On tthe contrary, it is regarded as a “semi-permanent asset of our city...and can be held together for any future time of need.” Thus the ranks of the fascists are being built up. There were not sufficient “volunteers” for the work in the beginning. It was notable that the Tammany Gi. SCONTINUED ON Fag Pa my each dis- be a citi- Six of those in jail here since January 4th because of their ac- tivity in leading the Kentucky- Tennessee coal strike were re- leased on bond today. They are Margaret Fontaine, Mrs. Dorothy Weber, John Harvey, Julia Parker, Norma Martin and Ann Barton. Vern Smith and Doris Parks are still held in the Harlan County jail. A large group of strike lead- ers and striking miners are still held in the Pineville, Middlesboro | and Harlan jails in Kentucky, and | in the Hazelton, Tenn., county jail on various charges. SPREAD LIES TO ‘HIDE JAPAN'S WAR, MOVES ON ULS.S.R. Revolt of M Manchurian Masses Grows The Japanese yesterday made a furthe rattempt to| nch vfolence | ourselves to spread the cail | force nito the background the| TUUL. CALLS ON centration on the Soviet fron-| tiers by broadcasting a statement “from an undisclosed source” that the Soviet Government was erecting “semi-permanent entrenched fortifi- | cations” on the Siberian border near | Pogranitchnaya, At the same time the Riga lic factory sent out a report that the Stalingrad tractor plant “has been erted to the manufacture of war tanks.” Numerous admissions that the Japanese are preparing to attack the Soviet Union have appeared in the imperialist press. These admissions include statements by Washington officials and foreign diplomats in all parts of the world. The Japanese themselves have openly admitted their troop concentrations on the So- viet frontiers. Japanese military leaders have called for an immediate attack on the Soviet Union. The Soviet Government has made no secret that it has strengthened its frontier garrisons to meet the Jap- anese threats, The imperialists are now trying to interpret these defense measures as “provocative acts.” In the meantime, the Japanese in- vaders of Manchuria are faced with a growing revolt against their brutal attempts to subjugate the Manchu- rian masses. A Darien dispatch re- ports the further growth of the armed struggle of Manchurian peas- ants and soldiers against the Japan- ese and their Chinese militarist puppets. A large insurgent force is reported gathering for an attack on the Jap- anese forces in Harbin. Other in- surgent forces have attacked the Japanese in Hallin, a city on the Chinese Eastern Railway about 150 miles east of Harbin. A force of Chinese and Korean Communists is reported to have in- | flicted heavy losses on the Japanese | invaders, ; | | court TheCanadian Labor Defense sent the x \its headq “We, of the Canadian Labor De- fense League, protest against the decision of the Supreme Court of your state, in that they upheld the decision of your courts to execute seven innocent Negro boys on the decision of your lower courts to execute seven innocent Negro boys on the flimsiest evidence. “That seven workers can be ex- ecuted om such evidence fills us with anger and disgust. We vig- orously protest these lynch ver- dicts. We pledge our energetic support to the Negro and white workers of the United s ing on a fight against this attempt to murder seven innocent working- class youths.” States carry The Negro and white workers in the Hill Branch of the Workers’ In- ternational Relief in Pittsburgh sent the following protest to Governor B, M. Miller at Montgomery, Ala. “Workers’ International Relief in meeting tempt to legally murder seven of the Scottsboro. boys. We demand a new trial for all of the boys, with Negro and white workers on the jury, and unconditional release for these victims of class justice.” today condemn the at- Similar protest y have been received from workers in the Soviet Union, in Germany and other dis- tant countries. MASSES T0 FIGHT LYNCH VERDICTS NEW YORK.—The National Office of the Trade Union Unity League yesterday sent the following protest telegram to Governor B. M. Miller and the Chief Justice of the Ala- bama Supreme Court. “We vehemently protest action of State Supreme Court in uphold- ing the Scottsboro brutal lynch death verdicts, We denounce this cold-blooded crime and the whole system of lynch murder designed to terrorize Negro toilers who suffer most from wage-cuts and unem- ployment. We wholeheartedly en- dorse and pledge full support to the International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Ne- gro Rights in fighting this out- rageous anti-Negro, anti-working- class attack of Alabama landlords and capitalists. We pledge to mob- ilize organizations of the Trade Union Unity League and the broad- est mumber of Negro and white workers for fight. We demand im- mediate, unconditional release of these innocent victims of class jus- tice and national oppression.” At the same time, the Natoinal Bureau of the Trade Union Unity League sent out directives to its unions and leagues and district sec- Tetaries to immediately send tele- grams and resolutions of protest te Governor B. M. Miller and to Chiet Justice Anderson, Montgomery, Ala, Directives were included to organize Scottsboro Defense Committees in all local unions, which shall co-op- erate with the I. L. D. and the L, 8 N, R. in developing a broad mass movement in defense of the Scotis- boro boys and for their release, an