The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 1, 1932, Page 1

WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail (Section of the Communist pata ) Norker huni! Party U.S.A. Last War on Entered as second-ci _Vol. IX, No. 78 a matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., ander the act of Marck 3, 1879 NEW YORK, FRU DAY APRIL 1, 1932" Wall Street Forced the U.S. Into April 6th. Make This a Day of Struggle Against Imperialist War _crry EDITION a = “Price 3 Cents_ ALL OUT TO BRONX COLISEUM ON ANTI-WAR DAY, APRIL 6 U. S. Gov’t and nd Coal Bosses Jail Frank Borich, 1 N.M. U. Head EX-OFFICER ADMITS PLOT All Out April 6! Demonstratel Against War, Against the Scottsboro Lynch Verdict! fight for the Scottsboro Negro boys must be placed in the forefront of the nationwide demonstrations on April 6—National Anti-War Da. The Scottsboro lynch verdicts are an expression of the savage war the American ruling class is waging against the oppressed Negro nationality. The terror against the Negro masses is part of the bosses’ war prepara- tons. ‘The entire working class must be aroused to furious protest against this bloody war of suppression on the Negro masses, against the robber war on China, against the bestial butchery of Chinese worker-peasant masses by the Japanese imperialists in the role of spearhead of world imperialism in the attack on the Chinese Revolution, against the criminal preparations of dying world capitalism for armed intervention against the emancipated masses of the Soviet Union, who are suclessfully build- ing socialism, and already have abolished unemploymnet, want, race hatred and national oppression from the territory of the Soviet Union. ‘The demonstration on April 6 must achieve afurther development of the mass fight to save the Scottsboro boys; must serve as the basis for the building of a truly tremendous mass defense campaign for these innocent young victims of class justice and national oppression. Already the mass fight to save the boys has forced a section of the southern ruling class to debate the “advisability” of carrying through the original decision to burn these innocent boys in the eleetric chair and to fling their charred young bodies in the face of the Negro masses as a gruesome warning to accept without protest, without struggle, their wor- sening conditions as capitalism seeks to find s way out of the crisis at the expense of the toiling masses, and particularly at the expense of the most depressed sections of the working class, This new born doubt, in the face of the rising thunder of proiest, as to the “advisability” of carrying through the murderous lynch verdicts, had its first concrete expression in the disagreement in the Alabama Supreme Court, where Chief Justice Anderson dissented from the majority decision upholding the lynch verdicts of the mock trial ni the lower court at Scottsboro, Ala. This doubt is further expressed in an editorial in the Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Herald, “Scottsboro Again,” in which it is stated: “Many Alabamians will regret the fact that a majority of the Supreme Court did not follow Chief Justice Anderson in the Scotts- boro cases. He stood out alone as maintaining that new trials should be allowed because the constant pressure of the military, together with demonstrations in the cour; room warranted such 5 course.” The doubt of the Alabama bosses is connected with the question of the best means to now proceed with the frame-up against the Scottsboro boys. .This doubt arises out of their capitalist interests, out of their necessity to prevent the further exposure of their courts which are merely instruments for the oppression and legal murder of all workers, and of Negro workers especially, The mass movement arising in defense of the boys has thrown terror into the hearts of the Alabama bosses. It has at the same time given inspiration and impetus to the struggle df the Negro masses in Alabama who constitute more then half of the State's population. This fear of the mass defense movement of Negro and white workers is clearly expressed in the editorial of the Age-Herald: “It is to b expected that unless this cause celebre takes 2 happy direction, clamor from the outline will be redoubled.” The lynch court remains a lynch court, including Chief Justice An- derson, whose dissent from the majority decision was not for the pur- pose of affording the boys a “fair deal,” but to afford the court the opportunity to put through the frame-up of the boys with less clumsiness in order to blunt the mass protest. The Birmingham Age-Herald, in its editorial, proposes a manouver ot accomplish the original lynch purposes, that instead of killing the boys outright in the electric chair they be sentenced to a living death in the dungeons of the Alabama prisons. The fate of the boys, their escape from the electric chair, their un- conditional release, can be effected only by the fiercest struggle. No one | can expect the herats of the bourbons of the South to b softened, no one | can expect the southern capitalist courts to change their character as an instrument of the ruling class for the suppression of the Negro masses. Only by the powerful arm of the proletariat can these children be wrested from the grip of the lynchers. April 6 must witness a tremendous outpouring of the workers through- out the country. Tens and hundreds of thousands of Negro men, wo- men and children must be drawn into the great anti-Imperialist War Demonstrations on that date. Smash the Scottsboro lynch verdicts! Build the fighting alliance of Negro and white workers! Demonstrate against imperialist war! Defend the Chinese masses! Defend the Sovict Union! Build the international fighting front of the workers of all races and countrise! Build the Class Struggle Unions! Tr Communist International has more than once pointed out to us that our major task is the building of the Red Trade Union Movement, particularly emphasizing the building of class struggle unions in the basic industries, ~ s Progress, although not of a decisive nature, has been made, particu-| larly in New York City. It must be emphasized, however, that the pro- gress made does in no way correspond with the exceedingly, favorable situation, The reason for the progress being so slow is due mainly to our own largely formal attitude towards this difficult task. The resolution re- cently adopted at the Executive Council of the ‘Red Trades Union Inter- national stresses in an unusually forceful manner the building of the Red Trade Unions, and above all, the organization of factory groups as the basis of rooting these unions in the factories. The Trade Union Unity Council of Greater New York, the central body of the TUUL' unions and leagues, has taken the initiative at its last conference, by setting itself the task of increasing the membership to 25,000 by the end of May 1932, improve the organization of the Red Trade Unions generally, and at least double the number of factory groups. The Drive starts today. Its success*depends, however, very much upon the work of every Communist, not only in the unions, but in every mass organization in the city. There are units of the Party with workers who are not even members of the unions and leagues, and plenty of others who are members, but are not active. No one can call himself a Bolshevik who does not participate actively in the building of the basic mass organizations of the workers, which are the Trade Unions—he only pretends to be one, but is not one in reality. Much has been said about concentrating upon the basic industries, In New York, this means mainly across the river, in New Jersey, and on the water front, which means marine, metal, and chemical industries, Any one that takes seriously the struggle against war must get behind the serious business of organizing these. This is a major task, and means that every one must get to work, not only the Trade Unions, but the Party, and the fraterz@l organiza- tions as well, If the drive for 10,000 new members, by May 30 is to bé a success, we sO reek eae Debt mee, paataters tn New ery ad, nthe! Water | UMWA instigated and helped the | to 1 RAID NMU OFFICE TO. SEIZE HIM National ‘Board Were | Discussing Walk- | Out on Pay Cut Try to Smash Union; Workers’ Protest Must Be Aroused PITTSBURGH, Pa.,| March 31.—Frank Bor- | ich, secretary of the National Miners Union was arrested in a raid on the offices of the union and is now being held by immigra- tion authorities for deporta- tion, This action of the federal authorities shows that the coal oper- atdts and their gun thugs of Ken- tucky who ocered $1,000 reward for Borich “dead or alive” are now re- ceiving direct support from the Hoo- ver hunger government in an effort to destroy the National Miners Union by an attack on its officials. The raid by the immigration au- thorities took place when the National Board meeting was discussing the East Ohio and Kentucky strikes, and the coming strike in Illinois and the many local strikes now taking place in every field. U. M. W. Helps Raiders. Members of the National Board reported seeing United Mine Work- ers of America officials, including Tom Robinson, coming from the Federal offices and watching the N. M. U, office. It is clear that the raid to prevent the NMU leading the fight against wage cuts. The National Board will immedi- ately proceed to mobilize the miners to defend Borich. Frank Borich was one of the lead- ers of the Pennsylvania-Ohio coal strike of last summer when 40,000 miners struck against starvation con- | ditions. The strike was fought mili- tantly and Borich was the object of the attack operators, gunmen, and the UMWA officials. | In Kentucky the country was combed by the Kentucky coal opera- tors’ thugs to “get” Borich. Now with the arrest of Borich by the federal authorities it is clear that the bosses in every coal state as well as in Washington Will pare no pains to try to cripple the National Miners | Union at this critical period when | tens of thov- ~¢s of miners are either g~-¢ into struggle or preparing for strike and look to the National Min- ers Unicn for leadersr Every w: should protest the ar- rest of Bo: Demand his release! The attack on the National Miners | Uni- is part of the b scheme ~ eve wage cuts on all workers and attempt to prevent effective re- sistr~ such as the National Miners Union is leading. Every shop, mine and factory 2 fertile field for Daily Worker sub- seriptions, —> Ford Calls for Huge Mass Defense Action to Smash Scottsboro Lynch Verdict Oppression of NEW YORK.—Branding the decision of the Alabama Su- preme Court upholding the lynch verdicts against 7 of the 9 Scottsboro boys as an_at-| tempt by the Alabama ruling | class to go ahead with the legal !mass murder, James W. Ford yesterday called for the fur- | ther development of the mass defense campaign to save the boys. Comrade Ford, who is a member of the Executive Com- mittee of the Trade Union Unity League and former sec- retary of the International Trade Union Committee of Ne- gro workers, declared: SMASH THE SCOTTSBORO DEATH VERDICT The Alabama Supreme Court has upheld the death: verdict against 7 of the 9 Scottsboro boys. This decision must be smashedt This whole thing is w direct at- tack upon the Negro masses. It is designed to terrorize the Negro masses and to keep them from or- ganizing unions and unemploy- ment councils to fight against SPIRIT OF LYNCH LAW AT TRIAL OF YOUNG NEGRO BOY Race Hatred Pervades Hearing for Brown, PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 31. —The trial of Willie Brown, Negro youth accussed of the murder of a seven-year-old white girl, was be- gun on March 28th. The court | objected to having Negroes on the | jury as a result of which there are none serving. The prosecuting attorney, the judge and the press are working hard to send this innocent Negro | youth to the electric chair. The | atmosphere within the court room is one of race hatred and attempts are being made to create race riots. The International Labor Defense is calling for two mass open air demonstrations for’ Monday, April | 4th, at Thirteenth and Thompson and at Fourth and Federal Streets, to protest against the legal lynch- ing of this Negro youth. |Expeses Decision of Alabama Supreme Court As Attempt to Maintain National Negro Masses wage-cuts, against evictions and for unemployment relief. The ruling class plans to go ahead with this murder in order te maintain the system of racial and national oppression of the Ne- groes and to continue the ruthless exploitation of the poor Negro farmers, share-croppers and peons in the South, Lynching and murder of Negroes are directly connected with their struggle against exploitation and oppression, At Camp Hill, Ala., the Negro share-croppers were shot down for organizing a union; at Chicago and Cleveland, Negro workers were shot down while struggling against the eviction of unemployed workers. This attack against the Negro masses is the age-old policy of the ruling class to maintain its rule, Jim-Crowism and to prevent the unity of the Negro native, while and foreign-born workers. This decision is part of the wide- spread campaign of terror to crush the spirit of the workers, both black aud. white, such as the reign of terror in the Kentucky mine fields, the shooting down of work- and many other places in the country. It is part ahd parcel of the capitalist reign of terror in the colonial lands and the capital- ist reign of terror in the colonial lands and the capitalist countries to subjugate the workers in order to put through their war plans. Every action of the Negro re- formists and fakers, such as the NAACP, has& shown that they are hand in glove with the ruling class in the carrying through of the exe- cution of these innocent boys, Only a fighting alliance of the Negro and white workers and farmers of this country with the workers and peasants throughout the world can smash this attack against the Negro masses, I am gure that every union, section, and group of the Trade Union Unity League will thunder its protest against this decision against the Scottsboro boys and demand their unconditional release. The work- ers throughout the world will thunder their protest. The Negro toilers must join this fighting front of workers in Amer- ica, Europe, Asia and Latin-Amer- ica as a part of the struggle against starvation, lynching, Jim- Crowism and imperialist war on the Chinese masses and the attack against the Soviet Union. PROVIDENCE, R. I., March 30.— Today, a delegation of textile work- ers from Rhode Island and Massa- chusetts visited the East Boston Im- migration Station to demand from 4 Years of Jewish Soviet Project Is Huge Triumph KHABOROVSK — Biro-Bidjan, the Jewish colonization project now being developed under the aus- Pices of the Soviet Union, and which will become an autonomous republic in 1932 has made enormous Progress in its four years of So- cialist development. Cultural centers, Sovkhoses, (State Farm) Kolkhoses (Collective Farms), factories and shops have sprung up on what until recently was the virgin soil of a total wilderness. Daily Biro-Bidjan is growing and strengthening and thus giving the most concrete proof that the solution to the “Jewish question” fs not the imperialist scheme of » back to Palestine moveemnt but the Soviet solution of the freeing of oppressed nation- ‘industry, The ‘agricultural production has develop- alities. , Biro-Bidjan is a district with great economic possibilities being the future center of a great mining district has also tremendous agricultural possibili- ties. Six Sovkhoses, machine trac- tor stations, and several Kolkhoses already exist in the region. During the last two years semi- ed its output to a point exceeding @ million roubles, This year twenty thousand new settlers are arriving in Biro Bidjan. Beginning with April groups of work- ers and farmers from Palestine, Ar- gentina, the United States, and Lat- via started arriving in the Sovict Union on their way to Biro Bidjan. NTWU Delegation Demands | Release of Edith Berkman: Mrs. Tillinghas, the immeriate re- lease of Edith Berkman. The dele- gation was headed by Ann Burlak,| Assistant National Secretary of the | NTWU, and Jim Conroy, textile worker of Providence, When the delegation arrived at the Immigration Station a whole squad of police equipped with a car- load of shot guns, tar gas, etc. blocked the entrance to the Immi- gration Station refusing the delega- tion the right to enter, stating that | their instructions were “no one, but the head of the delegation, Ann Bur- | |lak, must be allowed to enter.” After a long argument, Ann Burlak and Jim Conroy were allowed to tenter. Another squad of government po- lice were found inside of the Station. Mrs, Tillinghast, faithful servant of the Woolen Trust had her room filled with other Immigration Inspectors stool pigeons and reporters also a stenographer taking down every) (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) many, South Africa and other coun- tries are expected shortly. The four years of existence of Biro Bidjan mark the triumph of the. Leninist national policy giving strik- ing testimonial to its correct fulfili- through mob and lynch rule and | ers at the Ford Plant in Detroit, | | An increase in postal The United Front Committee, York workers’ organizations, issu@d imperialist war. . * | The imminence of |\the imperialist brigan Union, is admitted by Member of Executive Commitiee of the Trade Unity who has just returned from | frontiers and the frenzied war Union League, Col. Newell sees an early Japanese | Soviet Union attack on the Soviet Union as a cer- | Wm. Z Bone ani Richard Moore at Brighton Beach Scottsboro Demonstration Tonight Ss of cite League , tempt of the bosses to massacre Negro | ro Rights, Com-| children to go unchallenged. We urge er and Moore will be the | all workers to attend the demon-| ers at the protest demon- | stration at Brighton Beach tonight held at 3034 Ocean|and voice their protest against the | Unde |of Stru |rades F main 5 | stration be: | Parkway, Brighton Beach, Brooklyn,| decision of the Alabama courts to |N. ¥. at 8 p. m. tonight against the | murder the Scottsboro boys on May decision of the Alabama Supreme | 13th. |Court in the Scottsboro case setting} ‘The protest arranged at 3810-14th the date for the execution of these! ave, Boro Park, has been cancelled. innocent boys on May 13th. The Pro-| ay workers are rged to attend the letbuehne will also par jSnsiiaes Beach gales aaa ic ate Almost every recent in lynching or lyn Negro workers h | result of develor | It is essential white work- | |ers rally to the defense of the Negro | workers. We cannot permit this at- 1 frame-ups ean the | dlsech class struggles, © ANT -WAR MEETS 1,000 To Distribute 1 Leaflets on Sunday ‘Maloney Calls off. Anthracite Strike. SCRANTON, Pa., March 31.—} The breaking of the strike of anthracite miners was completed today by the Mahoney leadership NEW YORK. — Under the auspices of the Bronx Anti-War Committee, composed of the Communist Party, Young Communist League, TUUL | | groups, IWO branches, the Bronx, Middle Bronx, Tremont and other calling off the. strike. The rank | Workers Clubs, the branches as by and file in the United Mine Wark: Pee ra ene GE i hg ers of America will continue of-| | panications, two indoor mass meet ganizing against wage cuts ani| |ings will be held tonight against | discrimination and will make all) \runger, capitalist terror, imperialist | |efforts to organize the unem-| | var and for the defense of the Chi- | aes ee <A Feat omens nese people and the Soviet Union. coal operators and the city, © | and state government, | ‘The meetings that will be held at 3882 Third Ave., the heart of the Ne- Block Aid Scheme | workers for the demonstration tomor- To be Exposed by | row. Carl Winter Tonite | © Saturday the Anti-war Demon- stration will be held at 2:30 p, m. at Carl Winter, Secretary of the New ; Wilkins and Intervale Avenue. All | York Unemployed Council will speak on the fake block-aid acmpaign to- night at 8:30. p. m. at the Prospect | Workers Center, 1157 So, Boulevard. Winters will give a detailed ana- lysis on what the block-aid system |means to the workers. He will ex-|anti-war literature and mobilize the jplain how the bosses are using it | workers for the Coliseum meeting on as a spy system against the workers ' Wednesday. organizations will participate in this gigantic demonstration and march, On Sunday, more than a 1,000 | workers will visit every workers’ home in the Bronx and distribute and sell Millions Levied by House in Disguised Sales Tax stitutes for the defeated general manufacturers sales tax amounts to $463,000,000. The bulk of these new taxes have been placed on various articles of mass consumption,| so- called luxury articles, soft drinks, |amusement admissions and similar | rates trom | items. 2 to 8 cents for first class mail was} THe temporary submission of the voted, imposing a tax burden of $135,.|&fOUP of “insurgents” from the dem- sins aie afege ocratic and republican parties was 000,000. ‘Together with the taxes|® voted on the previous two days, abe marked, as not a single one took fotal in pew taxes levied as sub- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THBEE) a pene nen lc WASHINGTON. — Without the slightest opposition in the jHouse of Representatives $293,500,000 in taxes was voted almost unanimously on Wednesday. rialism and its puppet states. o— IN BRONX TODAY! gro section of the Bronx and at 2700 | Bronx Park East will mobilize the | the members of the above mentioned | wes w. coro FOR ATTACK ON THE SOVIET UNION FROM EAST AND WEST Sees Poland and d Rumania Ready Their Hunger for Russian Territory in the Ukraine” | Workers! All Out April 6! Demons : Imperialist War! Defend the Soviet Union! . “to Satisfy rate Against elected by the de @ call yesterday to all 400 New iated or- gates of ganizations, to organize their membership to turn out in mass to the anti-war demonstration at the Bronx Coliseum April 6, the anniversary of the entry of the United St Ea Kis Street, on into the last . armed intervention by ds against the Soviet Col. Isaac Newell, re- itired U. S. Army, former United States mili- |tary attache in China, in an interview reported |in the Detroit News of March 29. ions by U. S. military and diplomatic offic | the anti-Soviet nature of the Japanese war moves on the Soviet This is in line wi s on pee of French impe- tainty, and. declares: “Poland and imania, fearful of |the Soviets, may utilize Rus ~ | occupation in the Far East to s fy their hunger for Russian territory jin the Ukraine. Communistic ten- |dencies, which had been on the de= cline in China in recent months, have taken a new hold of Chinese soil, particularly in the south.” Col. Ne’ then voices the fear of the imperialists before the rapid growth of the new Soviet world of social and national emancipation. “The Communistic aspect of the Chinese situation is far more sig- nificant to the world than Japan’s invasion of Manchuria. But the two are inextricably interwoven...” Eugene Lyons, Moscow correspond ent of the United Press, reports that Officials of the Japanese Em Moscow are attempting to as “of no importance” the secret documents by high Japanese n officers calling for an imn armed attack on the Soviet Union. The documents were exposed in the Soviet press. The Japanese Embassy | now tries to make out that “even if | they were genuine they would repre |sent ‘only riresponsible personal ope inions,” In his dispatch, Lyons speaks of an exchange of notes between the |Soviet Government and Japan. His | dispatch peddles the illusion that be- | cause the Japanese have denied any intention of attacking the Soviet Union, the danger of such an attack is past. The Japanese also denied any intention of prying Manchuria apart from China. But htey have since established a puppet govern- ment in Manchuria, which has de- jclared its “independence” of China. |The Japanese also denied they were |making war on China at the time that their aeroplanes and warships were raining death on the Chinese The working class must not be deceived by the hypocritical gest< wrokers in Shanghai, ures and promises of the Japanese and otner imperiaust pmgands, ‘’be imperialist plans for armed intervention against the Soviet Un- 1h and its successtul Soctanst construction are in the final stage | as events in the Far East and in Eastern Europe clearly show, Over 300 Stockyard Workers Pledge to Defend Soviet Union CHICAGO, i—Three hundred Polish stockyard workers enthu- stastically greeted the report of the delegate to the Soviet Union, Walter Pasterczyk. They unanim- ously pledged to fight for defense of the Soviet Union and to carry the anti-war campaign into the stockyards. Six joined the Com- munist Party, The night before, one thousand | Polish workers on the Northwest side packed to capacity an anti- | war Defense of the Soviet Union mass meeting. Eleven joined the Communist Party. A Polish anti-war conference has been called for April 17 at two in the afternoon at 1815 West Division St,