The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 31, 1932, Page 1

Se Wall Street Forced the U.S. Into Last War on April 6th. Make This a Day of Struggle Against Imperialist War WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! (Section of the Communist International) — Price 3 Cents _ R OR Humanite” Exposes White Guard Plot to Assassinate Stalin |Many Returns to Work | | French Communist Paper Tells of Wide-Flung Tsarist Plans to Support Expected Japa- NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1932 Entered Post Office at New York, N. ¥., ander the act of March 3, 1877 “WE SUPPORT KY. MINERS!” STUDENTS Will Begin Fight On Increasing Fascist Terror and Reaction Protest to Congress Vol. IX, No. 77 “" ‘German I. L. D. Invites Scottsboro. USE TER RO Mother for a Thru | AS PRETEXT TOEND STRIKE NEW YORK.—The National office of the International Labor De- |fense yesterday announced the receipt of a cable from the German | Maloney to Disregard Interests of Miners Thousands Protest Western Electric) Layoff and Boss War CICERO, Mil, March 30. — Over one thousand workers from the | Western Electric plant demonstrated against mass layoffs and imperial- | | ist war this noon, while thousands of other workers looked down at the | demonstration from the windows of the plant. Together with the other workers who came to the meeting, between seven and eight thousand workers were present. Police brutally attacked the demonstration, using blackjacks and clubs, The workers militantly defended themselyes from the police at- tack and prevented the arrest of the speaker. Four of the workers were arrested. Hundreds of unemployed workers came to the demonstration to show their solidarity with the Western Electric workers who are to be laid off. The whole Cicero police force was mobilized to attack the demonstra- tion. Chicago police together with the Red Squad blocked all streets to Mopr, German section of the International Red Aid, inviting one of the | Scottsboro mothers to tour Germany under its auspices. The tour would \| be made in connection with the wir|d-wide mass campaign for the re- | lease of the Scottsboro boys. It would no doubt include other European countries as well as Germany. German and other European workers are showing immense interest in the fight to smash the lynch verdicts against these innocent NO boys. .Demonstrations before the United States Consulates, demanding the immediate release of the boys, have occurred in many European cities. 4 prevent workers from Chicago from coming to the demonstration ar- ropes As announced yesterday in the Daily Worker, Walter Pollack, nation- Rank and F ile Commit- | nese Attack on Soviet Union raver by the Meta] Workers Industrial League and the Unemployed Students Conference ally famous attorney, will act as chief of counse], wtih five other LL.D. tee Meets | : _—_—_—_—_— Another demonstration is planned in front of the factory for Aprii|| Hails Anti-War Fight || a{omers for the ap penno ee oe eee this cre mued toenn|| WILKESBARRE, Pa, March 30, | United States Workers to Demonstrate April 6 pt apa or ceGpagh craig eget camer mama reid orci ei WASHINGTON, — The’ National | | funds immediately to the Scottsboro Defense Fund, Room 411, 80 East| | —Many miners have returned to Against Imperialist War and Boss Terror cai ped eptehsen ae Uiien Pak: P Student League delegation to the | | 1th Street, New York. work for the last few days as a re- Against Negro Masses sult of no organization of the strik- ing miners in their locals. While —_—_—_—— many of the U.M.W. |ocals went | The French Communist newspaper L’Hu- on record for strike last week in spite of the opposition of their of- |Manite reports a Czarist White Guard plot ficial ‘ittees, those locals re | . lett to the mercy of the same om. | 22ainst the life of Joseph Stalin and other So- elal Boylan fang without strike viet leaders in connection with the plans of committees in their locals. ans | world imperialism for an armed attack, with Kentucky coal fields arrived in Wash- ington this morning and are ex- pected to demand a Congressional in- vestigation into the forcible preven- tion of their trip into Harlan and Bell counties, On their way to Washington, the two committees who were told by the governors of Kentucky and Tennes- Wall St. Whips “Bolters” Into General Dressmakers Meet Line on New Series of Taxes Tonight at Webster Hall WASHINGTON: —Succumbing to resulted in quick demoralization \\ to Discuss United Front NEW YORK.—Tonight, right after work, the first general membership meeting of the dressmakers atfer the strike will take place at Webster hall, at 119 East 11th St. The main point atthis meeting will be the report by Gen Gold, secretary of the union on strike and plans for building the dress department and spreading the united front movement for union conditions among the dressmakers. There will be a thorough iscussion by the workers from the floor. At this meeting, in contrast to the fmembership meeting called by ‘ the fake progressive Zimmerman-Blustein administration which failed to come @ the members with a report on the strike because they know the mass wesentment of the dressmakers against the wage cut, reorganization agreement, there will be a full and detailed report about the achive- ments and shortcomings of the strike will be given and members will be called upon to discuss all problems relating to the conduct of the strike as well as the future tasks of the union, Members of the International and workers from open shops are invited to attend this meeting. Knitgoods Meeting Tonight 7 p. im. A membership meeting of knit- goods workers will be held tonight, 7p. m. at the union office, iwi W. 28th St. Plans for intensifying the organization work during the coming season and preparations for a mass strike will be discussed. There will also be nominations for the trade committee and organizers. Fur Workers Meet Fur worker members of the Joint Council of the International Fur Workers are called to meeting to~ night, 5 p. m. at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St. This meeting, called by the rank and file tion members will discuss the present situation in the fur trade in which thousands of fur workers are suffering untold misery as @ result of the treacherous ac- tivities of the Keufman outfit, which together with the bosses has taken out an injunction in order to inter- fere with the struggle of the fur workers for union conditions. We will discuss plans how to relieve conditions of the unemployed, how | to fight the new scheme to extort money from the furriers for Kauf- man’s empty treasury through a forced working card system and adopt the necessary plans for uniting the ranks of the workers in the struggle for decent living conditions in the fur trade. Fur workers, members of the In- ternational are called to come to this most important meeting and raise their voices against all these existing evils brought about by the misrule and treachery of Kaufman and adopt the necessary measures to intensify the struggle inside of the local meet- ing called by Kaufman and fight every attempt of Kaufman to force his corrupt rule on the members of the International who have repeat- edly repudiated him and his gang, Demonstration Yesterday A huge mass demonstration was held yesterday afternoon in front of the office of Mr. Schiedlinger, presi- dent of the Pur Association, A com- mittee of workers went up to Schied- linger’s office to inform him that the fur workers will fight every attempt on the part of the Association to force them to take out working cards in the Kaufman racketeer union, and that they are determined to fight for union conditions regardless of the treacherous agreement signd by Matthew Woll in the name of the fur workrs. Schidlingr hid himself in the office, refusing to see the com- mittee of workers. After the demonstration, an open forum was held where many of the workers: participated in the discus- sion, expressing their determination to fight the further schemes of Kauf- man and the bosses to force the com- pany union rule on them. It is expected that many unem- ployed workers will be present at this forum. Active Needle Trades workers are called upon to report to the office of the union 7.30 a. m. every morning to assist the striking workers on the picket line. ‘THURSDAY DRAMA T. Yu to Lecture at Needle Trades Forum On War Noon Today 'T. Yu of the Anti-Imperialist Lea- gue will speak on the topic “America and the War in the Far East” at the open forum to be held in the auditori- um of the union today, at one o’clock. most class conscious in this country are vitally interested in this topic. They realize that the war in the Far East is a matter of time. Scatter Boss Press Lies--- Send Half Dollars OSS press lies about the Soviet Union increase as the boss war to crush the workers’ father- land grows~nearer. Spread the truth about the Soviet Union by spreading the Dajly Worker. The Daily Worker is now in financial difficulties. Save the Daily Work- er for the critical period ahead. Send your half dollar. Get your fellow worker ‘to send his half dollar. April 6 must be a day of great demonstra- tions throughout the country against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union. Keep the Daily Worker alive to rally the workers of America for that day and for all other times when the working class must show its solidarity to crush | The needle trades workers as the | see that the students could expect no guarantee of their safety while | in either state circulated resolutions among the students protesting against the acts of Kentucky and Tennessee officials, The delegation also issued an open letter to the Kentucky miners say- ing: “We realize to what terrorism you are subjected. We realize that your living conditions, which the coal operators are afraid to see, must actually be at the starvation level. We know the treatment given us is mild compared with what you are getting.” In concluding the statement, the students pledged their support and aid to the miners in every possible way. On their return to New York, the studénts ‘intend beginning a wide- spread campaign in all the colleges against the fascist violation of their elementary constitutional rights and against the growing political reaction in the United States of which the forcible stopping of their trip was but one example. ™ students relate that y trip | back through Kentucky and West} Virginia wasm arked by numerous expressions of sympathy and solidar- ity by people they passed on the road. In one of the restaurants in which they ate, a woman gave each of the delegation a rose and told them she was sorry for the treatment they re- ceived. At Ashland, two women hailed them from a passing car and cheered them for the fight they had carried on. At Knoxville, an insur- ance agent expressed his willingness to use his car for the trip into Bell County, The students laughed when they recalled the appearance of Walter B. Smith, Bell County prosecutor in red silk pajamas trimmed with white when he answered the door at the request of the student delgation. In addition to the appeal to con- gress and the open letter to the Ken- tucky miners, the students addressed a call to all students and college pro-~ fessors and instructors to support them in their fight against fascsit terror. the terrific pressure placed upon them by the Wall Staeet bankers in consultation with whom the new tax- | es had been added to the general revenue act, the coalition “opposi- tion” to the sales tax fell into line | with the democratic and republican party leaders and pledged their sup- port to the substitute tax program. Their tax program, offered by the | House Ways and Means Committee, |was fully supported by the fromer “bolters’” from the republican and democratic parties led by La Guardia |and Doughton. ‘The series of taxes substituted for | the general manufacturers sales tax | will be levied on a whole series of articles the ultimate cost of which will be born by the masses, That the new taxes are essentially sales taxes was admitted by Repre- BUTLER, KILLER OF WORKERS, NOW ASKS FOR VOTES |Marine General Slings Radical Phrases PITTSBURGH, Pa. March 30.— Major General Smedley D. Butler, former marine officer whose troops have killed colonial workers through- out the world because they refused to accept Wall Street’s starvation rule, is now trying to capture a huge workers’ vote here in the Senatorial election. Butler, who openly an- |mounces that he is a fascist, very clevely uses all the sham phrases he can find to get the workers to vote for him, Answering the wet propaganda of. James J. Davis, his wet opponent on the Republican ticket, Butler said: “The problem is whether people shall eat—not drink. “Millions of men, women and children are facing starvation through no fault of their own. Every worker has the right to work. It is the duty, in my opinion, of the federal government to see that they get work, “I am opposed,” he added, “to the sending of American boys abroad to be killed in defense of the inves- ments of the international bankers.” Butler spoke otherwise during the last world war when he was in the forefront urging the youth to go “abroad to be killed in the defense. of the investments of the inter- national bankers.” In fact, Butler is known for the fact that he personally has murdered at least 100 colonial workers and peasants because they fought against the rule of “the investments of, the international bankers.” NEW YORK. — The National Stu- dent League concluded the last ses- sion of its national conference and | | made extensive preparations for hold- | ing a mass meeting at Columbia Uni- versity. This meeting will greet the delegation returning from the Ken- tucky coal flelds. At the same time, the National Stu- dent Léague issued a statement cal- ling attention to the delegation of Common..ealth College which is now on its way to the/Kentucky coal fields with a truckload of food and clothing in the attempt to test the right to dis- tribue relief, What haye you done in the half- dollar campaign? was elected to make the necessary ar- Tangements for the conference. sentative Crisp who stated to the | House: “Under whatever form taxes are | levied, if the competition of the business permits it, the taxes are passed on the consumer and they | are in reality sales taxes.” ‘The group of representatives who | |defended the interests of the petit- | bourgeoisie in fighting the sales tax, | defeated last week, were completely won over to support of the new tax.! The split in the ranks of both parties, | indicating the differences between the powerful finance capitalists and | the small businessmen was moment- | arily smoothed over and the petty bourgeois groups won over to the program of taxation of the Wall | Street representatives. Both La Guardia and Doughton, who had made demagogic speeches last week, defending the “interests of the masses against the sales tax” came out openly in favor of the new | taxes. which will bear. down on the | masses just as heavily as under the | sales tax bill. The frank, alarmist speech of the House Speaker, Garner, indicated both the deep nature of the effects | of the crisis upon Wall Street and | the open pressure in the form of| “frightening predictions” which Wall Street was forced to resort to in or- der to break the opposition and mo- mentarily bridge over the split in| party lines. Garner said: “As sure as I stand in the well of this House, ¥ believe with all iy seni Goat it hm Onazcom atiay | should decline to levy a tax bill | there would not be a bank in ex- istence in sixty days that could meet Its depositors. “I believe’ that the shock to the nation, the shock to the foreigner | who is doing business with us, would be such that there would be | a financial panic that has never been equalled in this republic since its organization.” Even the demagogic talk indulged in by La Guardia and his followers about leaving the budget unbalanced to defeat the imposition of taxes on} the masses was discarded as the en- | tire House voted to “bend all their | efforts to balancing the budget, come | what may.” | A. F. of L. Plasterers Local Endorses Bill | | For Jobless Insurance PITTSBURGH, Pa- Pa—Plaster Local | No, 32 of American Federation of La- | bor, in its meeting last Friday, March 25th with over 90 members present, past a resolution indorsing the un- employment insurance bill and the local decided to take the initiative to call a conference of all the A. F. of L. locals in Pittsburgh on the question of the Unemployment In- surance Bill. The conference will be held April 30th. A committee of five Morgan, Thomas and the Block-Fakers Part IN. (Conclusion) The soclalfascist Norman Thomas, the socialist par- ty, J. P. Morgen, and the other fescists should re- member that the workers of this city and country know that the work bureau is not being “‘as well and humanly administered as funds permit.” They know that Tammany leaders send their friends ot the Emer- , gency Relief Buraeu and, as in Richmond, they get jobs, even though they ride to them in limousines. ‘They know that Tammany district chiefs send their needy friends to the Emergnecy and the Home Re- People,” with La small shopkeepers | Norman Thomas, have nothing but @ leading role in t! U. 8. Congress, shedding tears for |the | clalist party comes out in praise of this demagogy. “common Guardia leading the fight for the and petty manifacturers, the so- John Dewey and Heywood Broun praise for it. Demagogy will play he elections, and J. P. Morgan will push Norman Thomas to the front, to head off the rising revolutionary mood of the workers and small farmers in this country, in struggle against the crisis and the acute war danger against the Soviet Union, | remain unorganized, and | committee takes place tonight in | driven across the creek. | Shanghai. sion which is ostensibly in China to | against the Chinese | Chinese Red near the Wu-han cities 'Protection Fo oreign and a return to work with some | militant miners blacklisted. The terror of the state and city | police continues while the pickets as such cannot resist and break the terror. While a committee led by the “in- surgent” Maloney went to Pinchot and received the answer that the clubbing of miners will not stop, no efforts were made to organize the miners for breaking the terror through mass organized picketing. Maloney and his close associates are capitalizing on the terror as an excuse for the failure of spreading the strike and are already prepar- ing the ground for a way out for them, blaming the terror and the mine workers themselves for fail- A mass meeting of miners with ure of the strike. speakers from the rank and file | Luzerne, JAPANESE IN NEW ATTACK IN SHANGHAI AREA: League ~ Commission Moves to Push Attack! on Chinese § Soviet Dist. | The Japanese yesterday launched a new attack on the Chinese forces | | which were driven out of Shanghai, | following the betrayal of the Shang- hai defense by the Kuomintang and the “truce” engineered by the United | States, British and French im- perialists. The fighting occurred in the vi- cinity of Chia Wang Miao on Soo- chow Creek. The Chinese forces were The Japanese attack was carried out for the purpose of enforcing the Japanese demands, which call for the indefinite occupation by the Japanese of “Chapei and the countryside ad- jacent, Hongkew, Kiangwan, Woo- sung and Paoshan,” and a strip of | territory along the Whangpoo River. | This would give the Japanese con- trol of the mouth of the Yangtze | | River and effect the establishment of| | a military base from which to at- tack the growing Chinese Soviet dis- | | tricts in the interior. In spite of the hypocritical talk of withdrawing their troops from Shan- | ghai, the Japanese admit that they | still have over 50,000 troops at ‘The number is really much greater. The total number of | Japanese troops landed at Shanghai was over 100,000. During the past | past few weeks the Japanese have withdrawn about 15,000, The League of Nations Commis- | investigate the situation in Manchu- ria arising out of the Japanese seiz- | ure of Manchuria, yesterday left | Nanking for Hankow to “investigate” conditions in the Wu-han cities and in Hupeh Province. The “investiga- tion” is directed towards a further development of the present armed intervention of the imperialists Soviet Dis stricts. Armies are operating Born Delegation to Report Tonight} NEW YORK. — The members of TUUL WILL FIGHT the Japanese as the spearhead, against the Soviet Union this Spring. L'Humanite points out that under the protestion of French imperialism and its vassal states, the Czarist white Guards in Europe are developing far-flung anti-Soviet activities, in- “cluding preparations for military sap |port to the imperialists in their arn jed intervention against the success« |ful building of Socialism in hte So viet Union. An assassination came paign is to be carried out in an ate tempt to destroy the morale of the Soviet masses by murdering the out« standing Soviet leaders. The White Guards, L’Humanite says, are directed from Paris . Their | terroristic organization is centered at | Prague, Warsaw, Bucharest and Bele grade. The Prague organization re« |cently sent two former Czarist of» |ficers to Moscow under forged passe ports to assassinate Stalin, Neither jof them has yet returned, it said. The plot to kill Litvinoff, Soviet | foreign commissar during his attende ance at the League of Nations “dis- armament” conference was directed by this terroristic organization, L’Hu- |Manite says. The White Guards also helped in directing the recent at- tempt to assassinate the German Ambassador at Moscow, in an at- tempt to effect a break of diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Germany, and to help to bring |Germany into the anti-Soviet front whereby! the movement of French troops toward the Soviet; border would be facilitated. Soviet newspapers yesterday pub- lished a dispatch from Paris to the |Tass News Agency giving the de- jtails of the anti-Soviet conspiracies as exposed by L’Humanite. The frenzied activities of the Czar- jist White Guards are explained by the Japanese war moves on the fron- tiers of the Soviet Union, and. the understanding between the Japanese and French imperialists and the White Guards for an early attack against the Soviet Unicn. Fighting occurred yesterday direct~ ly on the Soviet frontier opposite the Vladivostok region. Korean and Chi- nese peasants are reported to be in revolt against the Japanese. The | Japanese are using the situation to further increase the already large forces they have mobilized within | striking distance of the city of Viad~ Jivostok. In the meantime, the revolt | against the Japanese and their pups |pet Manchurian government is ree Scottsboro boys is a challenge to | jorted to be gto-log iapidly, with the entire working class,” said |yrmed clashes increasing daily. William Z. Foster, national secr- A Mukden dispacth reports that tary of the Trade Union Unity | Chinese insurgents wiped out a Jape League, in a statement to the Daily | anese force of 100 which was transe Worker. !porting munition to the walled city “The Trade Union Unity League, | of Nungan, which is being beseiged which is leading struggles of the |by insurgent troops. The insurgents workers against wage-cuts and un- | Captured six motor trucks and 200, employment, is well aware of the | 000 rounds of rifle ammunition and fact that the campaign of repres- 5,000 trench mortar shells. A Chang sion and terror Against the Negro | chun dispatch reports that the Jape workers, of which this Scottsboro | anese already have been driven out decision is an outstanding example, jot Nungan, is part of the increasing attack of In Mukden, 200 Chinese workers the bosses upon the living stand- | yesterday stormed the Mukden are ards and political rights of all the |senal, killing one Japanese and workers. It is an attempt to crush | Wounding several before they were the growing struggles of the Negro | driven off by machine gun fire. masses and to maintain the divi- Small bands of insurgents are ree sion of the working-class under [Pour to have occupied several vil- conditions of sharpening class |ages along the southern branch of struggle and growing unity of | the Chinese Eastern Raliway, Negro and white workers. As such, it is a part of the bosses’ hunger- war offensive, “Almost every recent instance of | | lynching or lynch — frame-ups | against Negro workers, has been the direct result of developing class struggles. The Negro worker who attempts to fight against wage- cuts, for unemployment insurance, WM. Z. FOSTER FOSTER DECLARES LYNCH VERDICTS | Salls on WhiteWorkers To Rally to Defense of Negro Masses NEW YORK.—William Z. Foster, national secretary of the Trade Un- ion Unity League, and Communist candidate for president in the last national election, yesterday issued the following statement | pledging the most active, militant support of the T. U. U. L. and its unions in the fight against the Scottsboro lynch verdicts, and calling upon the white workers to rally to the defense of the Negro masses against lynch ter- | ror, national oppression and eco- nomic robbery: “The decision of the. Alabama Supreme Court upholding the vic- ious death sentences against the ATTENTION A very important meeting of the | | Dress fraction will be held this | Friday, April 1, at 8 p.m. at the Workers Center. All comrades must be present, some very im~ portant problems will be discus- sed, in the war now going on against the Chinese masses. “As well and humanly administered,” says Thomas. “IT wish to express my gratitude to the managers of the work they are doing so well,” says Morgan. Like master, Jike slave! But a veteran of the world war, has a different story to tell. This man hed been receiving relief from the Veterans Bure&u. But soon that stopped—no funds, for what reason no one seems able to tell. He was transferred to the Emergency Relief Bureau. The veteran went there, and was pled pellet, Two months in arrears in repi, ASOMERIVER 28 FAG3 THO ee alll, the Negro share-cropers or farm- Isborers who attempts to struggle against the oppression of the land- lords and loan-sharks, is in imme- diate danger of being faced by cap-. the bosses’ terror, murder and starvation. Keep the Daily Worker alive to rally the work- . ers for the release of the Scottsboro boys. Keep the Daily Worker alive to rally the workers against boss terror in all its phases, from the murders in | Detroit to the spy and robber “block-aid” system. Your coupon is on page three. Cut it out \, ita it with your half dollar to the Daily Worker, Wast 13th Se | Carpenters Local 2090 of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor will meet today at the Labor Temple at 247 E. 84th St., to hear a report of the Wash | ington delegation which testified be- | fore the immigration committee of | diate danger of being faced by cap- congress against the anti-war alien | italist-inspired lynch-gangs. bills. “It is essential that the white | Max Levin, attorney for the Com~| workers rally to the defense of the | mittee for Protection of Fordign-|-Negro toilers. We cannot permit | lal, \_. Wit attemeys of the wara-deirers te, eto pao lief Bureau and they get jobs and rellef even after registration has been closed. They know that the role of the Tammany police in this whole fascist scheme is, and Thomas again openly allies himself with the police. Socialfascists and Capitalist Demagogues This is not an “accidental,” “tactless” act on the past of Thomas. This is the function of the social- fescisy party, that must be exposed to the entire work- ing class, pariicularly since we face the national eleo~ dis. \.- ions Wibb the go called “insurgent” active 4 | District Org. Department, massacre Negro children, to go unchallenged by the working-class. We must not only keep up our vigilance—we must organize a tre- mendous campaign that will strike fear into the minds of the white bosses and will smash thie wiekomy i OT || ls la Sl lla