The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 30, 1932, Page 1

WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail (Section of the Communist Se ans ) Norker Fruit 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 "Vol. IX, No. 76 = Eamtered as second-clase matter at the Pont Offics at New York, N, ¥., under the act of Marck S, 1879 NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, , MARCH 30, 1932 Manufacturing Soviet ‘Atrocities’ for War Against the Workers’ Republic NEW flood of Bolshevik “atrocity” tales has been issued from the lie factories of the capitalist press. Every day a new horror is being in- vented. The most luxuriant crop, however, comes from the Roumanian cities near the Soviet frontier. There isn’t a day but a report is circu- lated about peasants trying to run away’ from the Soviet Union, making their escape over the frozen Dniester River and being “mowed down” by the frontier guards. Yesterday the record was brokeh by the New York Times, with its wire-- less dispatch from Bessarabia to the effect that 1,000 Moldavians, men, women and children, had been shot down in the past three months. Hair-raising details are quotde. Names and places are cited to make the story more plausible. The sob-story of “mother and daughter” dying at the hands of the horrible bolsheviks is not missing. But the liars become tangled in their own’ lies. They do not make their fabrications tally. One time they say that it is the wealthy pea- sants, the kulaks, who are trying to escape from the Soviet “inferno.” ‘Yesterday’s ‘Times informer broadcasted the news that the Soviets “are now campaigning against the serednitks, or farmers of moderate means.” But only a few days ago a story was told about Soviet red soldiers shoot- ing down 300 women assembled to defend their church. ‘The stories are as old as they are lying. The Soviet government is not “campaigning” against peasants of moderate means. It is not now conducting any specific campaign in favor of the peasants joining collective farms. The process of collecti- vization in Ukraine is nearly completed. The few remaining individual Peassants are eager to join of their own accord because the collective farms secure their members a better living then do the individual farms. There is no compulsion. There is no drive in this respect. ‘There is no drive to destroy churches, either. Everybody is free to worship, The Soviet government is only conducting an educational drive to make it clear to the masses that religion is dope capable of poisoning their minds. No churches are burned down against the wish of the worshippers. Church bulidings are turned to better use only by decision of an overwhelming majority of the local population. In such cases there is no struggle. There are no battles between red army men and worship- pers in any place of the Soviet Union. All these stories are vicious lies, clumsy and foolish inventions. ‘This renewed outburst of “atrocity” tales about the Soviet Union, of horrors against religion, of shooting down “thousands” is a means of stirring prejudices among the masses against’ the Workers’ Republic— at a time when the Japanese imperialist hordes are being mobilized along the Soviet border in preparation for a murderous attack. It\has been tried more than once before. A similar crop of “news” appeared in the spring of 1930 when war preparations against the USSR were progress- ing rapidly. Similar tales were told by the thousand at the time when the attack on the Chinese-Eastern Railway was planned in 1929. Re- cently tales of Comrade Stalin’s “illness” show that this also recurs every spring. There is no so to the fertile imagination of the hired. scrib- blers. It is not in vain that this lying crusade has now been undertaken. It indicates more than anything else that war preparations are made feverishly. The fact that the rumors come from Roumania only show that Roumania is to be one of the major factors in the attack on the Soviet Union from the west. ‘The American imperialist swith their press lackeys hope to befuddle the masses with=these—fabrications. The truth about the Workers’ Re: public, however; penetrates thru the fog of capitalist propaganda. The truth is reaching the American masses. The workers begin to realize that the Soviet Union is the land of real proletarian freedom, htat it is the land where there is no unemployment, no misery, no starvation, that it is the land where industry and agriculture are increasing enormously, thus improving the life of the masses, that it is the land where there are no bosses, no Mellons, no Rockefellers, no Hoovers’ but where the workers themselves are their own rulers under the dictatorship of the projgtariat. ‘This smoke screen of poison propaganda is a war measure against the Soviet Union. The next step will be an attack with artilles# and poison gases. The workers must halt that attack, They can do so if they fight with united forces. April 6 is the day of mass mobilization against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union, Into the streets on April 6tht FIGHT the “‘Block- Aid’’ Spies and Robbers! Save the Daily Worker: LL the workers support the “block-aid” sys- tem when they know that it is a system of spy- 400 JOBLESS DELEGATES AT OHIO MEET 3500 March With Dele- gation to State House Expose ‘NoHunger’ Lie Legislature — Rejects Demands COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 29.— Over four hundred delegates met in a convention of the unemployed here simultaneously with the special session of the legislature for relief. Thirty-five hundred work- ers demonstrated and marched with the delegation to the state capitol to expose the lie of Gov- ernor White that there is “no star- vation” in Ohio, The delegates are demanding unemployment insur- ance. A committee was elected to see the governor and the legisla- iure with the demands. The de- mands were rejected. The demonstration demanded the immediate release of the Scottsbore boys. The delegates dis- cussed and planned a further in- crease in the struggle for unem- ployment insurance. ANTI-BLOCK AID MEET ATTACKED BY ARMED THUGS Bosses Fear. Effect of Drive Against Fake I Block Aid NEW YORK; N. YA meting of workers from the.blocks of 35th: to 67th Streets on the west side, con- tinuing the Anti-Block-Aid campaign | and growing out of hte Bryant Hall Anti-Block-Aid meeting last Friday, was attacked by a gang of thugs last | night. The attack was instigated by Tam- many Hall and the bosses, who are feeling the effects of the Anti-Block- Aid campaign and enraged to see their efforts to fool the workers into participating in the block aid hoax, exposed by the counter-campaign led by, the Mid-Town Unemployed Coun- cil, The attack took place in the head- quarters of the Council, at 418 West 53rd Street. A terrific battle took place, with the workers putting such a militant resistance that the thugs were beaten off twice After being routed the first time, they returned with iron pipes jand tried a second assault, slugging the workers, including women and |children. But each time the workers fought so bravely that the thugs got the worst of the fray. ‘The workers instead of being in- timidated by this attack should be encouraged and stirred to a greater deetrmination to expose and fight the block aid as a spy system aimed to blacklist militant workers, line them up for war and bleed them of their last penny. The [assault is ing and robbery? Will the workers support the “block-aid” sys- tem when they know that it is a fraud, that it © is not even meant as a “block-aid”? The bess press does not point out to the workers that workers will be intimidated, by the threat of being fired, to solicit and to give more money to the relief fakers. The boss press does not point out that directions for “block-aiders” state clearly that “it is undesirable that any block should select as its beneficiary a family living on that block.” Only the workers’ paper, the Daily Worker, points out to the workers what is this new sys- tem of hijacking 2nd robbery. The Daiiy Worker must be spread to hundreds of thousands of workers to point out to them the truth about these spy and police terror commit- tees, which will, when the time comes, be so easily changed nito DRAFT committees. The Daily Worker must not go under in this critical time of boss terror and boss war that is not only shown by the “block-aid” movement, but { also by the massacre in Detroit, and the slugging and brutality in Chicago, New York, Washington, and Harlan, and finally by the brazen decision of the Southern ruling class to go through with the lynching of the Scottsboro children. Save the Daily Worker to expose this increased boss terror. Save the Daily Worker to unite the workers to fight starvation and war plots, and to ated the “block-aid” system o: spying and rob- Your coupon is on page three. Cut it out. Mail in with your half dollar. Get your fellow worker \ ; » ‘ive a half dollar, and mail in the coupon with Mar bill. clear proof that the anti-block aid campaign has gotten under the bosses’ skins and they are afraid of its effect. oe OF WAR TERROR IN WA Police viciously clubbed and mauled women and men and young workers in demonstration against the robber war on China and imperialist war plots against the Soviet Union. “ory Y “EDITION SHINGTON \ \ I. L. D. Pushes Plans for Scottsboro Appeal to U.S. Supreme Court! Workers Urged to Organize Mass Campaign to Back Fight in Court Against Lynch Verdicts BULLETIN To carry the fight against the vicious Scottsboro lynch verdicts to the U. S. Supreme Court, the International Labor Defense must have $10,000 at once. Several or- ganizations, including the National Commitiee-for-the Defense of Poli- tical Prisoners, have pledged their help in raising this fund. All work- ers and sympathetic elements are urged to rush contributions imme- diately to the Scottsboro Defense Fund, Room 411, 80 East ith St. New York City. The International La- bor Defense announced yesterday that Walter Pollack, nationally famous New York at- torney, will make the appeal as chief of Counsel to the Uni- ted States Supreme Court against the decision of the Alabama Supreme Court af- firming the lynch verdicts. against seven of the nine innocent Scottsboro Negro boys. .Associated with Pollack will be the five I. L. D. attorneys who have been working on the case, in- cluding Gen. George W. Chamlee of Chattanooga, Joseph Brodsky and Irving Schwab, who argued the appeal before the Alabama Supreme Court, Pollack has had the widest ex- perience in arguing cases before the United Statees Supreme Court. While retaining the best legal talent to push the fight in the courts against the lynch verdicts, the I. L. D. points out that the fight in the | Japanese imperialism on China and | Last night the following protest was | courts~ can only be successful if| backed by the most tremendous mass protests of workers and sympathizers throughout the country. The United States Supreme Court is controlled | by the same Negro-bailing, anti-| working-class bosses responsible for the. sayage-terror against the~Negro masses, for the brutal attacks on Negro and white workers fighting against starvation and - imperialist | war. Working-class and sympathetic or- | ganizations continue to send protests | to Gov, B. M. Miller of Alabama, and | Chiem Justice John C. Anderson of | the Alabama Supreme Court, Ala. sent by a mass meeting held in Har- lem at the call of the Nat Turner } Group of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights: ° “Negro and white workers as- | sembied in mass meeting at St. | Luke’s Hall on March 24 protest against the infamous decision up- holding outrageous frame-up and legal lynching of innocent Negro boys at Scottsboro. We demand | the immediate and unconditional release of the nine innocent boys. We endorse and pledge ourselves te support the mass campaign led by the International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights to free the Scottsboro boys.” On April 6, Negro and white workers will demonstrate throughout the country against the lynch ver- dicts and against the robber war of the preparations of world imperialism for armed intervention against the Soviet Union. Morgan, Thomas and the Block-Fakers Part IL Fascists operation without this aid... funds will be decently used. meeting the situation by charity.” has made a specialty of helpi of the fascists Is that they will be this section, by giving thme relief, But not only that. expenditure Shy police are dii2cuy Norman Thomas, Socialist, Openly Assists Police and Just as Morgan knew what he was doing, so too Norman Thomas, the socialist, knew that he was. aiding a fascist plan. Thomas, in a broadcast, said: “tt (block-faking) is an attempt by volunteers to en- list systematic support for the work bureau and other selief, which on the whole is being as well and human- ly administered as funds permit and which may cease There is assurance that I hope block-aiding will open men’s eyes to the miseries around them, but above all to the magniture of the lie that We are | le. Hitler in Germany is able to maintain his organ- ization greatly through the financial support that he sets from the finance-capitalists, which he doles out to the unemployed. The Emergency Relief Bureau he white collar slaves. Thomas has been particularly interested tn them— as the League of Industrial Democracy is. against the workers in the shops irs case of strikers, and against the unemployed workers. gives open assistance to the fascists. Thomas knpwe that the funds 7 means—that the workers are. being Lied to as to the (for rettet of a re Imows «ims the OvC7e@ fa She plan Tous, Norman Thomas, leader of the socialist party, and re- presentative of that organization, proves that the role of the socialist party is—to assist fascism in placing its iron ring around the necks of the workers. ‘This is not a chance “mistake” on the part of It is the role of the socialists role they have earned the name of social-fascists — fascists in character, socialists in phraseology. phraseology is adopted in the interests of the capital- ists, who know that the workers are being radicalized particularly by the crisis; that they are turning to the revolutionary organizations, particularly the Com- munist Party, for leadership and organization in strug- This must be stemmed and the socialist party ‘Thomas. - serves this end. ‘The hope abie to inccisize and use them Thus Thomas The role the social-democratic party of Germany recently played in the elections, the struggles prior to the elections. fascist Hindenburg regime in putting through wage cuts, breaking strike of unemployed workers unemployment insurance, The social-democrats thought denburg’s fascism by calling upon the workers to sup- port him, and by trying to make the workers believe that the only fascists were Hitler and Duesterberg. This is the game of the socialfascists in the crisis. Socialists Work With Police Brs it is important to examine Thomas’ statement for the relief are being obtained thtu'eh fraudutent } Over the radio in the light of the declarations of the Emergency Rellef Bureau and the block-faking or- ganization, The ncedy in the neighborhoods will NOT | be helped. The funds will ¢o to the central organiza- SCONTINL LY ON PAGE WO) | for which This \ as it played in all They aided the es, denying hundreds of thousands | they could cover up Hin- * \Students Meet to Plan National Fight On Terror To Demand Freedom of Scottsboro Boys See Page 3 for news on Student Delegation to Kentucky. — — | W XYORK.—The nationat con- ference of the National Student | League will be concluded) today with the completion of the last of the three sessions held this week. The program committee will report to the 45 delegates representing 19 eastern and midwestern colleges and “universities, “following” which there will be a discussion and elec- tion of a national committee and a resident national board: The delegates to the conference heard the report of Homer Barton, one of the National Student League delegates to Kentucky. Barton had returned earlier than the rest of the delegation who are expected to arrive in New York Thursday and will be greeted by a mass meeting a gation and t by it to cross ed band which highway and the| threats of ly Barton told of the ej of smith, Bell County prosecutor from the sec- togeth h two deputy >porter, Harry rker editorial “Student and the had blocked liter B. of the Dail ki n the Gannes staff 5) ion was devoted to reports of the individual college dele- gates, and a discussion of the policy and activities of the National Stu- Je ue in the struggle against e decided to set aside two weeks for an in- The con. the follow tensive anti in all the colleges, to the holding | of m s before the jopt a na- | tional Sco’ in the | last week of April, and to prepare for active participation in the May First and National Youth Day demonstra- tions. This conference is the first of its an symbol: aliza- tion of the students in the various | colleges and universities. The na- tional program of the National Stu- dent League will be finally ratified and adopted together with a concrete plan of action based on the direct participation ofthe National Student League in all the struggles of the working class. the growing 14 Tennessee Coal Strike Organizers In Court on Monday KNOXVIL Tenn., March 29. —A writ of habeas corpus was granted for Monday morriing in Tazewell, Tenn., where 14 Na- tional Miners Union organizers were arretsed. The trial will be held at one o'clock. Nine were re- leased. Five are held on charges of sedition and carrying @ gun fand will be. brought before the grand jury on April 18, They are Tom Johnson, Frank Stewart, Bige Wilson, Bill He: and Silas Byrge. Bail for each has been sen tat $1,750. The six Kent |been seized by the Communists, who HARBIN OBSERVERS SEE JAPAN GETTING READY FOR ATTACK ON SOVIET UNION ‘apanese Troop ». ‘Disposition: Arranged for Rapid Onslaught at Five Points of the Siberian Frontier paige tenor Yorkers! Demonstrate April 6th Against bm- perialist War and for the Defense of the Soviet Union! With the approach of warm weather and the catastrophic epening of the crisis in Japan, the Japanese imperialists are apidly completing their military dispositions in Manchuria nd Korea for an armed attack on the Soviet Union. Harbin lispatches report that Japanese troops are so disposed as to enable a rapid onslaught against worke Russia from five different points along the Manchurian Siberian and Korean- berian frontiers. The tactical nature of these troop disposi- tions are so evident that observers in Harbin have greeted with the most open skepticism the hypocritical statements of the Japanese of their “peaceful in-¢———--________ tentions” toward the Soviet Union. ' | yesterday, joinine a force of 5,000 A Harbin dispatch to the New York insurgent troops who were besieging Ve ea \the city. The garrison numbers ‘General Hasebe's__ statement | 1599 troops. The troops of General that Japan does not want @ quar- | Wan Teh-lin, one of the Chinese rel with the Soviets is greatly dis- counted in view of troop move- ments, because such heavy con- centrations are not required for protection of Japanese interests.” panese invaders, are |also in revolt. Insurgent forces yes- |terday penetrated to within 35 miles |of Changchun, the capital of the new puppet state set up in Manchu- ‘Tn the meantime, the Japanese |‘, by Japjanese bayonets. Insur- |violators of Manchuria and Korea) vent troops have successfully beaten |are facing a growing revolutionary | pack Japanese attacks on the city of |movement in both countries. A Da-/ruyvy from which the Japanese rien dispatch reports widespread up- were driven on March 16. The in- risings by Korean workers and’ surgents are said to be in full con- peasants, Jed byl Communists, in| trol of the district south of Fuyu, Kirin Province on the borders of and to have occupied several other Korea. The town of Patungkou has towns, including Quarhlossu. are reported to have captured large| Red partisan troops of |Chinese stores of arms and munitions. Sym-|and Korean workers and peasants \pathetic uprisings are reported in|are reported to be actively cam~ Korea. |Paigning against the Japanese. in- Kirln Province troops garrisoning | |vaders in man ydistricts of Man- the walled city of Nungan revolted | churia, Washington Court Gives Vicious Sentences to Anti-War Demonstrators Four Washington Defendants, Including Jorkers Still in Hospital, Up for Trial April 6th WASHINGTON, D. C., March 29. — The Washington boss court today proceeded with the frame-up of 19 more of the workers ar- rested last Saturday after the police had mur- derously attacked a demonstration held before the Japanese Embassy. The demonstration protested the rob- ber war of Japanese imperialism against China, and the plans of world imperialism for armed intervention against the suc- cessful construction of Socialism in the Soviet Union. Eight of the workers were sentenced to 60 days or $300 ©the Japanese Embassy. The demon- stration protested the robber war of The Scottsboro Boys Japanese imperialism against China, Shall Not Die! Mass | and the plans of world imperialism Meeting Brighton Beach, April Ist for armed intervention against the demonstration successful construction of Socialism in the Soviet Union. Eight of the workers were sen- tenced to 60 days of $300 fine each. A mass _ protest against the decision in the Scottsboro case rendered by the Alabama Su- preme Court will be held at 3034 Ocean Parkway, Brighton Beach, N. Y., with Comrade William Z. Foster as leading speaker, on ‘Friday eve- ning,'April Ist, at 8:00 p. m. The capitalist ruling class of Ala~ bama, backed up by the Wall Street Government is producing with the murder of the Scottsboro boys as part of a wide campaign to terrorize and suppress th2 Negro masses and to crush the spirit of the working class. black and white. The decision of the Alabama Supreme Court to mur- der these boys is a direct continu- ation by slightly different means, of the policy of lynching that has al- eady clai- * thousands of victims in this country and which has made the name of American capitalism synonymous with murder, The policy of ruthless violence against the masses is becoming more open in the effort of the ruling class to place upon the working masses the burden of the economic crisis by which the capitalist system is being undermined. The wave of murder- ous terror against the Negro people and the white and black working class is directly connected with the preparations rajidly being made in the U. S, to plunge this country into the second imperialist war. All workers, Negro and white are therefore urged to attend the Brigh- ton Beach demonstration Friday eve- ning April First, What have you done in the half- Eleven were sentenced to 30 days or $100 fine. Among the defendants were several workers who served in the army and navy in the recent World War. These workers took the stand and sharply exposed the crim- inal war plots of the bosses to plunge tle world into a new and bloodier slaughter. They voiced the opposi- tion of the working-class to the prep- arations for a new war, directed especially against the Soviet Union. Four other workers are held on assault chafges in addition to the charge of “disorderly conuct and parading without a permit.” The four are Joan Hardy, who was knocked unconscious by a policeman with a punch in the jaw, Kastrow, Siskind and Kennedy, Kastrow, who is still in the hospital suffering from the brutal beating he received, could not appear in court at the hearing. The trial of these four workers is set for April 6, National Anti-War Day, The workers of the whole country must pour out into the street on April 6 in militant protests against the war preparations of the imperial- ists, against the brutal attack by the Hoover police on workers demon- strating against the butchery of the Chinese masses and the war provo~ cations against the Soviet Union! All out April 6th! Demand, Hands off China! Hands off the Soviet Union! Smash the war plots of the bosses! Have you ordered your bundle of the Anti-War Edition of the Daily Worker for April 3f