The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 2, 1932, Page 1

t | } 1 _* ——— a | WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central ene of the Communist International) er Tn Section Two Sections One — “Vol. IX, No. 79 a Entered as seco! at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥.. ander the act of Marck 3, 187? NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1932 CITY EDIT TON Price 3 Cents _ EXPOSE WAR PROPAGANDA LIES OF SOVIET “ATROCITIES” For Working Class Unity in the Election Campaign !--- | Against the Hunger and War Offensive ot the Capitalists! | For the Workers’ Ticket---Candidates of the Com-' BIG PROTEST APRIL 6 ON SCOTTSBORO Defense of Boys to Be In Forefront of Anti-War Meets Demand Their Release Protest Telegrams Pour in on Gov. The fight against the Scotts- boro lynch verdicts, against th- savage national oppression of the Negro masses, will be in the forefront of the nation- wide anti-war demonstrations next Wednesday, April 6. In many cities preliminary meetings are being held in the Negro districts to draw the largest possible number of Negro workers into the demonstrations. In Kansas City a parade and dem- onstration of Negro and white work- ers through the thickly settled Negro section of the city will be held on April 6. It will be lead by a band and a truck bearing an electric chair surrounded by eight Negro youths, symbolizing the boss terror. The parade will start from 17th and Pa- seo at 1 p. m. It will proceed through the most important streets of the Negro section, winding up at 2 0’ clock at 12th and Paseo, where the big anti-war demonstration will be held. The demonstration will raise the demand for the immediate and unconditional release of the Scotts- boro boys, of Jess Hollins, a Negro young worker of Oklahoma, and of Tom Mooney and other class war prisoners. Preliminary meetings and open air Tallies are now being Held. A canvass is being made of all Negro organiza~ tions by the Scottsboro-Hollins De- fense Committee, urging them to take part in the demonstrations. Ir- ene Hollins, young wife of Jess Hol- lins, is taking a most active part in this work. Comrade Hollins has al- ready signified her support of the struggle of the revolutionary move- ment for Negro rights by becoming a member of the Young Communist League. Comrade Hollins was one of the main speakers at a recent protest meeting against the Alabama lynch verdicts. The meeting was held at the Workers Center, Kansas City. Other speakers included Mother Ella Reeves Bloor. 15 ARE ARRESTED AT SCOTTSBORO MEET IN CHATTA. Duncan, Ky. Miner, Is Held for “Murder” CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., April 1. —An orderly Scottsboro protest meeting was stopped here by the police last night. Workers were just beginning to gather. About wtenty had arrived when two carloads of police, armed with rifles and pistols surrounded the group and arrested fifteen. The police were accompanied by Police Captain Perkins and Judge Fleming. The arrested are Jane Dillon, Sam Borenstein, W. H. Duncan, Idela Boynton, Adam Wil- son, Charlie Holt, J. W. Hurston, Fred Starr, Jim Williams, Perry Hill, William Boynton, Ben Mor- rison, John Montgomery, Thomas Montgomery and Richard Robinson. They were all piled into one patrol wagon and were jim-crowed. The charges are disorderly conduct, loitering, vagrancy and blocking the street. ‘The meeting was being held on an upaved side s.reet where there were no traffic. Dillon and Boren- stein are out on $650 bond each. Duncan is being held on “suspicion of being wanted for murder in Kentucky.” Continuation in asked 4 the prosecution on the grounds of “investigation.” munist Party-- Against Candidates of the Bosses! Call for the National Nominating Convention of the Communist Party, U.S. A. Workers, Comrades: Millions of workers and farmers are starving in the midst of plenty. Un- employment continues to rise. Wages have been and are being ruthlessly slashed under Hoover’s regime of hun- ger and oppression. The standard of living of the vast millions of toilers are being driven down to pauper levels. Capitalism has exposed its bankruptly and its inability to feed the working people. ‘The big business interests, in order to keep up their high profits and swollen fortunes, are violently attacking tthe workers’ standards on all fronts. Increased exploitation and oppres- sion and new imperialist wars are the two-fold means being used by the boss class to get out of the economic crisis, Imperialist war, with its bloody sacrifice of workers’ lives, have already started in the Far East against the Chinese people, a war which is being systematically developed by the robber nations into a war against the workers’ father- land—the Soviet Union. In fear of the growing strength of the Soviet Union, where no crisis or unemployment exists, the capitalists are organ- izing their forces for intervention. War against the Soviets is an immediate danger. United States imperialism behind the screen of peace maneuvers and sham pacifist phrases, is rapidly preparing to throw its forces into this robber war. The capitalist politicians—republican and democratic—aided by the leaders of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor and the socialist party are forcing through their starvation and war program against the workers by means of terror, by suppressing the workers’ rights, by means of beatings, lynchings and mavders. The fight for the defense of the stanéards of living of the masses and the rights of the workers to fight against starvation and war are the burning is- sues before the millions of toilers today. TO ALL WORKERS, EXPLOITED FARMERS, NEGRO AND WHITE, MEN AND WOMEN! There is only one way out of the unprece- dented misery and oppression of the toilers. This is the way of united and organized mass strug- gle. If the working class is not to be plunged into still greater poverty, into the slaughter house of a new world war, it must fight with all its might against the economic and political of- fensive carried on by the capitalists and their government, The Communist Party calls upon the workers to establish this united fighting front around the following demands: 1, Unemployment and social insurance at the expense of the state and employers. 2. Against Heover’s wage-cutting policy. 3. Emergency relief, without restrictions by the government and banks, for the poor farm- ers; exemption of poor farmers from taxes, and from forced collection of debts. 4. Equal rights for the Negroes and self- determination for the Black Belt. 5. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of suppression of the political rights of the workers. 6. Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union... It calls upon the workers to organize this united resistance in the coming election campaign by sending delegates to the National Nominating Convention to be held in Chicago on May 28th and 29th. All workers and farmers, Negro and white, and their organizations; all persons and workers’ or- ganizations prepared to support a militant work- ers’ platform and candidates, are invited to par- ticipate. Participation in this convention is not limited to members and organizations of the Communist Party. All workers organized in trade unions, workers’ fraternal organizations, or other bodies; all un- organized wotkers, through meetings called in factories, mines, or in their neighborhood; all unemployed workers through their Unemployed Committees and Councils, are urged to partic- ipate in the local conferences which will be held -in all cities from May 5th to May 22nd (subject to the call of local Party committees) and from these local conferences elect delegates to the National Nominating Convntion. National organizations supporting the aims of this convention may elect two delegates each direct to the Chicago Convention; District Com- mittees of the Communist Party may elect one delegate direct. The Communist’ Party, which calls this Con- vention, is the only Party which has forewarned the working-class of the present crisis and the attacks of the bosses, and urged them to prepare. It is the only Party which has consistently or- ganized the fight for unemployment insurance and carried on an aggressive strike policy in the industries against wage cuts and against every attack upon the workers rights. Fellow workers, the capitalist system is bank- rupt. The workers need and must fight for a new system, a system of Socialism. On the basis of a united and militant struggle for the defense of the living standards of the workers, the tcilers must fight their way out of the crisis; they must abolish the capitalist system and establish a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government. Join in the local conferences, send delegates to the Chicago Convention. Forward to a fighting united front against the explorers! Central Committee, Communist Party, U.S. A. ed All correspondence relative to the election cam- paign should be addressed to the National Cam- paign Committee, 35 East 12th Street, 9th Floor, New York City. 75,000 Miners Out on Strike in Coal Fields Face U.M.W.A. Betrayal if Demonstrate at Ford’s Exhibition of New Model Cars DETROIT, Mich. March 31.— CHICAGO, April 1. put over a 60 per cent wage cut on 75,000 coal miners in Illinois, Ohio, West Virginia and sections of Ohio and Indiana the U. M. W. A. officials and the coal operators have entered into an agreement merely to stop work for a 30-day period and to act to prevent the miners from conduct- ing a militant strike. The purpose of the “silent truce” is to wear down the men and then to permit the coal operators to make their drastic cut of from the so-called scale of $6.10 a day to $3.90 or $4.00 and even less. The vast majority of the miners are on part time work, and the new rates mean utter starvation for them and their families. The closing down of the mines on April 1st in the Illinois, West Virgi- nia and Ohio coal fields followed a conference between the [llinois Cos! Operators’ Association and the of- ficials of the United Mine Workers of America. No agreement had been reached be- cause the rank and file of the UMWA are dead set against wage slashes, the men knowing they are faced with starvation already, and that a fur- ther cut means death by hunger to their families and the miners. The UMWA officials, who in many cases have acted with the state au- thorities to jail militant miners on criminal syndicalist charges because they called for strike against wage cuts, are agreeable to a wage cut and want to do all they can to help the operators out. The wage cut of 60 per cent, however, is too steep to put over in one fell swoop. Hence the compromise on a shut-down, with no preparations whatever for strike ac- tivity or organization for a militant struggle against tht wage cuts. All the capitalist newsvapers recog- nize the betraying nature of the “strike”, the United Press saying: “Pvt the shut-downs in the Illinois and Indiana fields were described as neither strikes nor lockouts. How- ever, mine operators of District 7 an- nounced at Terre Haute, Ind., they would reopen tomorrow with non- union labor.” ‘The bosses in many cases art going — Unable togahead with the idea of hiring scabs, and the UMWA officials do nothing about it, keeping the men from picketing. The Associated Press states: “In Illinois and Indiana the shutdown was neither a strike nor a shutout. There was no agreement to continue operations.” The The same capitalist service declared: “No trouble was expected in any of the fields.” In only one instance was a dem- onstration of any kind planned and that was at Bellaire, Ohio. In all other mines the UMWA officials are only effective method at this time to smash the 60 per cent wage cut drive of the coal operators. The National Miners Union is calling on the 75,000 miners now out and hogtied to organize local rank and file strike committees, to go into action into a real, mass struggle against the wage cuts; to form a united front of all miners, regardless of union affiliations, and to prevent their betraying officials from carry- ing out their plan’ of wearing dow the miners in order to help the coal operators put over their wage cut. doing all they can to prevent picket- ing or militant strike activities, the Kilby Prison, where thy ehav beeen held under conditions of the most ghastly torture ever since the mock trials in the lower court at Scottsboro, Ala., the eight Scottsboro boys send the following appeal to the young workers f the whole world to rally to the mass fight to smash the hideous frame-up and Workers greeted the exhibition of the new Ford Models today with several demonstrations despite the heavy detachments of Murphy's Police at the display stations. Five Max Ireland, organizer of the .| Young Communist League, was sentenced to 30 days in jail today, | for speaking at Ford’s plant last month during the preparation for the bloody Ford Hunger March, How will the war zone in the next war cover also the civilian Population? Read “Chemical War- fare,” by Donald Cameron, ten Cents. ° Scottsboro Boys Appeal from Death Cells to Toiling Youth of the World MONTGOMERY, Ala, Ap! April 1—From the death cells ing “Only ones helped us down here been the International Labor De- NATION-WIDE FIGHT ON WAR Workers in Many Cities Prepare Dem- onstrations Defense of U. S. S. R. | Protest Robber On China | Intense prevarations for Na- tional Anti-War Day, Aprli 6, jare under way in many cities. ON APRIL 6 War} = \Soviets Increase Wages 11 to 20 P.C. While Bosses Prepare War MOSCOW, April 1.—A rise of 11.5 to 18 per cent in wages in the Attack Bourgeois) Reporter Workers! Against the Soviet Boss Press Lays Base for Armed on USSR Slips in Reporting “Clashes” on Easter Holiday Coming May 1 and 2 Answer the War Preparations Union! Demon- strate April 6 |Huge outdoor and indoor de- jmonstrations of Negro and |white workers and sympathetic | elements are being arranged | for vigorous mass protests a-| jgainst the robber war on |China, against the criminal Soviet light and heavy industries, will take effect today. | increase of 20 per cent in the wages in the engineering personnel in An average | | both light and hevay industries also has been ordered. Members of the Communist Party who formerly received the lowest pay, are to share in the recent wage increases. |preparatoins of the imperialists for |armed intervention against the Sov- {iet Union and its successful Socialist | jeonstruction. The fight for the | Scottsboro boys, against the decision | |of the Alabama Supreme Court up- |holding the lynch verdicts against 7| of the boys, will be in the forefront of all the demonstrations. | Chicago TUUL Conference Supports | Anti-War Day In Chicago, parades and meetings | lare now being held in working-class | districts, with special attention to Side. factory gates, special leaflets and shop papers are being distributed. The main anti-war demonstration Park, Ogden and Randolph. onstratioin will be held at 4.30 p. m at Broadway and Alder Streets on n indoor meeting is being prepared for April 6 at 7.30 p. m. at 1814 Broadway U.S. EXPERTS SEE EARLY WAR | DURING SPRING Washington n military experts | openly hintew yesterday that} the Japanese should send more | troops into Manchuria to crush the huge Negro district on the South | Meetings are being held at will take place on April 6 at Union| In Indiana Harbor, an open air dem- | “ By MYRA PAGE. | MOSCOW, April 1—As part of the prep- arations for capitalist armed against the Soviet Union, the bourgeois and socialist” papers in the European capitalist intervention | countries are intensifying the campaign of lies against the Soviet Union. | During the past few days numer- | ous reports described as from “spe- | | cial correspondents” have been’ pub- | lished featuring “Ukrainian revolts, hunger riots in Moscow,” etc. These reports are pure and simple inventions. A good example of the lying character of these reports is| the dispatch by the bourgeois Tele- graph Union published in numerous ;German newspapers, according to | which “fierce collisions occurred in various parts of Ukrania on Easter between religionists and atheists’ when the latter attempted to inter- | fere with Easter celebrations,” The clever bourgeois correspondent forgot that there are no Easter cele- | brations in the Soviet Union at the time of the Easter celebrations in | western countries, that all branches | ON AAS Nee SE a NEW YORK.—Similar lies have ‘appeared recently in the American bourgeois press, which together with the whole imperialist press, is busy slandering the Soviet Union in a vi- cious campaign designed to deceive the masses and win them for the plans of the imperialists for a reac- tionary war against the successful construction of Socialism in the So- viet Union. Only yesterday the New York Times carried a dispatch from Buch- arest which tnes to give substance to the lie that Red Army soldiers have shot down “fleeing” Soviet Peasants with the additional lie that @ commission appointed by: the So- viet Government and the Rouman- ian government is. to investigate the | of the Orthodox church holding Eas- | “shooting.” As an added touch, the ter celebrations will hold them the | dispatch adds that the investigation | first and second of May this year. | may take place on Soviet soil. Ten Years of Communist Press in the United States: again expresses its suport for the js an event of great importance to Japanese in their butchery of the | the Communist Party as a whole and Chinese people and its desire that|to the {entrie revolutionary move-| the Japanese imperialists should speed up their plans for armed in- tervention against the Soviet Un- | ion, with Manchuria as the principal | base for the Japanese operations. Th: New York Times reports: “Military experts here feel that Japan must have a greatly increas- ed forced in Manchuria before or- ment. Ten years of the Freiheit is Jalso ten years of Communist press |in the United States. There was a Communist press in the United States before 1922, but it was not of continuous character. The | attacks of the capitalist government on the Communist Party and the re- | | volutionary movement in January jthe struggles of the heroic! on april 2 at Madison Square revolutionary unions—Tampe, Ken- Manchurian masses and insurgent) Garden, the tenth anniversary of | tucky, California, ete.), on the Cont- soldiers. American imperialism thus} the Freiheit will be celebrated. ‘This munist Party (outlawing in Tampa, Kentucky, etc.). The dangers are overshadowed by far by the possibilities, and therefore it is the duty of the Party and its |members to penetrate ever more into ‘the masses of workers in the shops, particularly of war industry, The first and most powerful weapon of the Communist Party and the revolutioriary movement in the fulfillment of this fundamental task |is the Communist préss. Millions of der can be restored.” The Japanese puppet government jin Manchuria has imposed an em-/| bargo against the shipment of wheat | to Vladivostok, Soviet port in the | Pacific, according to a Washington dispatch to the New York World- fens eand the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. We don’t put no faith in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. | They give some of us boys eats to| go against the other boys who talked | ‘lynch murder verdicts: “We have been senienced never done. Us poor boys beeu sentenced to burn up on the electric chair for the reason that we is workers—and the color of our skin is black. We like any one of you workersKr ieta is non of us older than 20. Two of us is 14 and one is 13 years old. “What we guilty of? Nothing but being out of a job. Nothing but looking for work. Our kinfolk was starving for food. We wanted to help them out. So we hopped a freight— just like any one of you workers might a done—to go dcwn to Mobile to hunt work. We was taken off “From the death cell here in Kilby Prison, eight of us Scottsboro boys is writing this to you. to die for something we ain’t CEE MEIN EO PEE NATE AR the train by a mob and framed up on rape charges. “At the trial they give us in Scotts-/ boro we could hear the crowds yell- ing, “Lynch the Niggers.’ We could see them toting those big shotguns. Call ‘at a fair trial? “And while we la; here in jail, the boss-man make us watch ’ein _burning up other Negroes on the electric chair. ‘This is what you'll get, they say to us. “What for? We ain’t done. noth- ing to be in here at all. All.we done might have done the same thing— and got framed up’on the same charge just like. we did, wals to look for a job. Anyone of =| for the LL.D. But we wouldn't split, nohow. We know our. friends and our enemies, “Working class boys, we asks you to save us from being burnt up on the electric chair. We's only poor working class boys whose skin is black.” We ‘shouldn't die for that. “We Near about working people holding meetings for us all over the world. We asks for more big meet- ings. It'll take a lot of big meetings to help the J, L. D. and the L.S.N.R. to save us from the boss-man down here, “Help us boys. We ain't don noth- ing wrong. We are only workers like you are. Only our skin is black. “(Signed) Andy Wright, Olen Montgomery, Orie. Powell, Charlie ‘Weems, Clarence Norris, Haywood | Patterson, Eugene Williams, Wil- He Robertson.” Telegram. The dispatch alleges that the Soviet garrisons on the Siberian border are further strengthening their positions. It reports Washing- ton officials as admitting that such steps would be in self-defense. It | Says: “These moves were viewed in in- formed circles here as directed to- ward defense in case Siberia should | | be invaded by Japan, Tokio has denied that Japan has any such intentions.” Another Washington dispatch re- | ports Washington officials as anti- cipating “major warfare” in Man-| ehuria during the Spring. It says: “The situation in North Man- churia is extremely grave and there is every possibility of major war~ fare there during the Spring, con~ fidential reports reaching here to- | day indicated.” | 1920, and the driving of the Com. | workers sympathize with the Soviet | munist Party underground, made the | Union. ‘They must be informed on | work of the revolutionary Party dif-|all the developments in the Soviet ficult, But, like al! revolutionary! Union in the building up of Social- ‘movements, the Communist Party |ism. They must be informed about persisted and with its persistence|the provocations against the Soviet grew the need of revolutionary dai-| Union through the capitalists, their | lies, and out of this came the Daily | agents, the socialdemocrats, the re- Worker, the Freiheit and many other | negades, white guards, etc. (plot to papers. assassinate Stalin, Chicherin, etc.). We rejoice in the tenth anniver- | They must be instructed about their jsary of the Freiheit, but this re-/duty in defense of the Soviet Union | joicing must be a signal for the|and the Chinese masses. | working class. We must not close | Carrying out this tsak in an exeel-~ jour eyes to the dangers confronting | lent mariner’ is our DAILY FREI- | the revolutionary party and its press. | HEIT, which is winning the workers The capitalist class of the United | |in ever larger numbers for the re- | States, facing the acute crisis, which | volutionary movement, not only in is growing deeper, facing the grow. |ventiment—but especially in ORGA- ing revolt of the workers against/NIZATION. The Freiheit is one of |hunger and wage cuts, is plotting | our best instruments in bringing this | further attacks on the workers and about. is preparing for war against the Sov-| All workers should attend the de- jet Union. In order to carry this! monstration at Madison Square Gar- |out, they are making savage attacks/den on April 2, in demonstration (on the foreign-born workers (deport: | sgainst imperialist war, for defense. Jations), on the Negro workers|of the Chinese masses and the Sov- (ynchings, Scottsboro), on the revo-|iet Union, in protest against the lutionary unions (deportation for ac- | savage lynch verdict against the ning tivity in the TUUL, outlawing the Negro Scottsboro boys.