The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 5, 1932, Page 1

Sw WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central pad of the Communist International) Norker SBR fruit Party U.S.A. There is one officer in the United States Army to every eleven men. This heavy force of officers the governme: te train the recruits in nt holds in readiness the next war and to lead the centralized fascist forces that may be required to hold down tendencies toward revolt among the troops, _Vol. 1X, No. 81 Bens Entered as eecom at New York, N. ¥. ander ¢ Office 3, 1877 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1932 Price 3 Cents _ E CITY EDITIO: TAN BRONX COLISEUM TOMORROW, ANTI-WAR DAY! — 56,000 000 Families Struck tron from Home Re Relief Buro Lists Cash Bail Needed for Freedom of For Working Class Unity in the Struggle Against Hunger and War! «for working class unity in the election campaign! . . . Against the hunger and war offensive of the capitalists!”—this was the starting point of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in its call, published in Saturday’s Daily Worker, for the National Nominating Con- vention to be held on May 28th and 29th in Chicago, Illinois. Working clas unity in the struggle against hunger and war!—this is an urgent necessity, not only in the election campaign, but NOW— in every struggle of the workers. In the first place, the broadest unity is necessary in the struggle against imperialist war, in the demonstrations. and meetings which are to be held throughout the country on April 6th—-Tomorrow! The threat of a new world war is not diminishing. On the contrary, every day shows new developments which quicken the tempo of the war preparations on all sides. Reports from Tokio yesterday admitted that two. new divisions of troops were being rushed to Manchuria. ‘This means an additional 30,000 Japanese troops on the borders of the Soviet Union. There are already there not less than 45,000 to 50,000 Japanese troops, thousands of Corean and Manchurian troops supporting the Pu Yi puppet government and thousands of Russian white guard emigres who are being financed and armed by the imperialists. There are not less than several hundred thou- sand soldiers now waging war against the Manchurian people and in position for an immediate attack on the workers’ fatherland—the Soviet Union. In Europe also the imperialists are preparing. The proposed Danubian Bloc of the French is essentially an effort to unite the Danube nations for the Anti-Soviet war. It is a move to strengthen the French military bloc which already embraces the border states—Poland and Roumania— by adding nations heretofore divided by many antagonisms. The present ‘economic status of these nations—Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Jugo- slavia and Roumania—is such that France holds the whip hand; this she is using, apparently with the support of Great Britain, to force these countries into the war against the Soviet Union. France, as is everywhere acknowledged, is the most open supporter of Japan's war in the Far East. Japan, relying on French pressure, has openly spoken of simultaneous action by Poland and Roumania on the ‘Western borders of the Soviet Union, while Japan attacks from the East. ‘The Danubian Bloc is France's answer; it is an expression of the willing- hess of the European imperialist nations to give Japan full support as Yong as its military activities are directed.against the -U.S..S. RR... And now, whle these discussions are taking place, Stimson—Wall Street’s agent—suddenly announces his immediate intention of sailing Yor Europe. Wall Street plainly wishes to keep its fingers in the pie. “The American bankers also, despite their unwillingness to see Japan | strengthen its position in China at American expense, are perfectly | willing to unte now in a war against the Soviet Union, with Japan as | one of ther allies. Stimson's hurried trip to Europe, when taken together ith the conference Sunday between Tardieu and McDonald, means that ® new effort will be made by the imperialist statesmen to “solve” their own conflicts in an effort to bring unity in their war against the rising revolutonary movement within their own countries and in the colonies end for war against hte Soviet Union. Y Now, more than ever, the workers must be on guard. Because, while these latest maneuvers will be carried through under the guise of settling economic problems bringing about “disarmament,” etc., they will actually Jead to a sharpening of the war situation and will lead to drawing more mations into the war already started by Japan in China. Against this war drive of the imperialists, the workers have the task of firmly uniting their ranks for struggle. This applies to all workers— to those who are unorganized, as well as to those already jn various organizations. It applies to the members of the trade unions, to the ‘members of the unemployed councils, to the honest working class members ‘yf the A. F. of L. and Socialist Party. Every worker who is opposed to another imperialist war is now confronted with the burning necessity of quickly uniting in a solid fighting front against the war now in progress. ‘The Communist Party calls for such unity. It calls for such unity how, as well as in the election campaign. The slogan for the elections, published Saturday, “Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union,” is more than an election slogan. It is the slogan of the Party now. The demonstrations and meetings tomorrow, April 6th, are already held under this slogan. All workers are urged to join in these demonstrations. All workers are urged’ to join in these demonstations. All workers are urged to unite in the preparation of the Chicago convention, where a workers’ platform and workers candidates will be put forward for the election campaign, and where steps will be taken to strengthen the unity of the workers in the struggle against hunger and war. Rally Workers to Support Daily Worker May Day Issue HE coming eight-page May Day issue of the Daily Worker must be made the greatest event So far in the history of the revolutionary press in ‘the United States. The boss war, the increasing police terror, demand that we spread the May Day message of solidarity on a far wider scale than ever before. We must begin today to lay a solid financial basis for the Daily Worker May Day issue, and for every issue of the Daily Worker. Cut out the coupon on page three. Mail it to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 18th Street, with your contribution. And begin at once to build up special bundle orders, to be paid for in advance, for the May Day issue. Canvass your fellow workers, your mass organizations, and the commercial places that you patronize, to send greetings and take advertise- ment space for the May Day issue of the Daily Worker. - The May Day issue will climax the drive the Daily Worker leads every day to mobilzie the workers to fight wage cuts, to release the Scotts- ‘boro boys and all class war prisoners, and to ex- pose the bosses’ war plots, especially the treach- erous role played by Peal and other workers’ ems in renere e workers to be herded DEMAND NY. BOSSES OPEN RELIEF BURO Rally All Workers’ Or- ganizations to Struggle NEW YORK—Following the} closing of the Home Relief! Bureau in New York yester- day and the removal of 56,000 workers from the New York| relief lists, the Unemployed Councils of Greater New York called an emergency conference last night to| rally all organizations to demand the | immediate reopening of the bureau. | ters, secretary of the New York Un. employed Councils, was reporting on| the call to action. It was proposed at the meeting that all workers clubs, mass zations, Block Committees unions at once open headquarters in the nearest police precinct to register from the relief lists. The workers in every neighberhcod struggle to force the bosses of New York to open the bureau at once, All organizations must rally their Print your own leafiets. leaflets throughout the neighbor- hoods. day and night. rally the workers. Hold meetings to Visit every house. come an organizer and smash the fake block aiders. Demand real and immediate relief. Worker for further directives and in- structions. Have you ordered your bundle of the Anti-War Edition of the Daily Worker for April 2? Needle Trades. Union Calls Eight Meets Against Boss War NEW YORK. — The Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union has arranged a series of mass open air meetings throughout Man- hattan and Brooklyn to voice the protest of the needle workers against the robber attack of Japanese imperialism against the Chinese masses and against the preparations being made all the imperialist nations to attack the Soviet Union. The meetings will be held today and tomorrow atthe following | places? Tuesday 36th St. and 8th Ave., 36th St. and 8th Ave., 38th St and 6th Ave., 38th St. and 7th Ave. Wednesday Brooklyn—Bogart and Harrison St., 27th and 7th Ave., 370 W. 36th St., 38thSt. and 8th Ave. | Frank Frank Borich, Secretary of the | Pittsburgh International Labor | Union is trying to raise cash bonds where are called upon to raise the the immigration agents, is still in jail. Twenty thousand dollars property bonds were offered, but was re- | fused by the court on the ground that it is not in $10,000 parcels. The | court demanded single parcels of property of the value of $10,000 each. | This is done in order to keep Borich in jail. to communicate with the International Labor Defense. ‘ Borich National Miners Union, arrested by Defense and the National Miners for his freedom and workers every- necessary cash. Workers are urged 150 Y outh Delegates at| Chicago Anti-War Conference ’ Endorse Fight On War} Chinese, Korean and, Negro Youth Present CHICAGO, April 4.—150 I.L.D. Pushes Scottsboro ‘Appeal to Supreme Court | To Demand Release on Bail of Two Boys Wait- ing New Trials; Need Funds to Push Fight Against Lynch Verdicts BULLETIN CHATTANOOGA, April 4.—Mrs. Ada Wright, mother | As we go to press Comrade win-| organi- | and | all workers who have been stricken | must be mobilized into one gigantic | membership to get to work af once: | Distribute | Keep the headquarters open | Every worker should at once be-| Follow the Daily | _ White Guard Terrorist on Trial of Andy and Roy Wright, two NEW YORK.—The national office anounced yesterday that it would file a writ of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court this week in | decision of the Alabama Supreme Court upholding the lynch verdicts against seven of the nine innocent Scottsboro Negro boys. The I. L. D. is also sending one of jits attorneys to Montgomery Ala- |hama, to raise the question of bail |for 14 year old Eugene Williams and Roy Wright, who are awaiting new |trials. A change of venue from Scottsboro to Birmingham will be | demanded for the new trials. The |I. L. D. will also push the fight to of the International Labor Defense | connection with the fight against the} of the Scottsboro boys, has ac- cepted the invitation of the German Red Aid to tour Europe under its auspices for the defense of the Scottsboro boys. | The invitation was transmitted to Mrs. Ada Wright by a rep- resentative of the International Labor Defense. . ° force the Huntsville, Ala., police to} turn over to the defense the letter | written by Ruby Bates, one of the two white girls whom the boys are aceused of “raping.” In this letter, written to a sweetheart of |her’s, Ruby Bates denied that the boys had molested either herself or her com- | panion. While.the I, &. D. is pushing the jout the United States are preparing | militant demonstrations for April 6, National Anti-War Day, to protest | plans of the bosses for armed inter- ‘construction in the Soviet Union. By MYKA PAGE European Correspondent of the Daliy Worker. MOSCOW, April 4.—The trial of Stern Vasiliev opened today at 10 o'clock before the session of the Military Collegium of the Su- preme Court, presided over by Ulrich. Vasiliev is accused of attempt- ing to assassinate the German Ambassador Von Drickesen, as part of an perialist and White Guard terroristic plot to disrupt relations between Germany and the Soviet Union. The “German Embassy Counsellor Twardowski was injured by Vasiliev, who shot at him, mistaking him for the German Ambassador. Krylenko as People’s Commissar of Justice is State Prosecuting Attorney. Braude Kaznacheev, member of the Moscow Collegium Defenders, is acting for the de- fense. The court has summoned eight witnesses, Spur Soviet Auto Production in Moscow At the morning session of the trial, evidence was given by Or- novski of the German Embassy and by the chauffeur, Jarov, who caught Stern and gave first aid to Twardowski, and Borisov, O. P. P. U. offical who arrested Stern. The witnesses were followed by Stern who contradicted them as well as the disposition by Twar- dowskis which was read to the courtq. Stern pretended not re- membering how ‘many shots he fired, denies firing at Borisov who was coming to arrest him and says he doesn’t know why he threw his revolver away. However, all wit- nesses agree and material evidence is established beyond a doubt that As U.S. Auto Plants Stagnate NEW YORK.—In clear contrast to. The Nizrni-Novgorod plant, built the anarchy of production under capitalism, the highly organized sys- tem of socialist production in the Soviet Union responded immediately to the temporary hindrance prevent- ing the huge Nizhni-Novgorod auto- mobile plant from operating accord- | ing to schedule. ~ Two members of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party were instantly rushed to the plant, to remove the conditions blocking uninterrupted production, While the boss press makes capital out of this incident, they hide the fact that the problems preventing the scheduled operation of the plant’ are ones of growth and not as in the capitalist countries of decline. A similar incident took place when the Stalingrad tractor plant failed to operate according to plan, As soon as the trouble was located and re- moved, the Stalingrad factory began for mass consumption, instead of as under capitalism the bosses getting the benefit, is the largest of its kind in Europe. It occupies 300,000 square yards ,of ground. Around it and some 14 miles from the dilapidated city of old Nizhni-Novgorod is being built a new socialist city. It will contain over 60 four story apartments and 178 small houses for workers and their families. There are kitchens for communal meals, schools, hospitals, clbs, dining halls, public baths, laundries theatres and all other feat- ures of a model Soviet city. The Nizhni-Novgorod plant was designed to reach an ultimate pro- duction of 144,000 machines annually. This number will lift the Soviet Un- jion from 32nd to 8th place in the |tank of automobile producing coun- | tries. While the Soviet Union is trium- phantly overcoming [all difficulties Stern fired two shots. at Borisov but missed, one bullet landing on the wall, another hitting the horse of a cab driver. Stern attempted to deny some of his statements made to the inves- tigating magistrate before the trial. He attempts now to make every- thing appear as accidental, includ- ing the selection of the embassy to be attacked, and the choice of the particular official of the German Embassy as the victim of the at- tack and denies everi the fact that Twardoskis was wounded. Under cross examination, how- ever, he admitted that the choice of the German Embassy was delib- er ate, that it was decided to assas- sinate the German Ambassador al- ready in December, that the attack was carefully planned, including the shadowing of Embassy offi- cials, watching their movements and noting numbers of their two automobiles, one of which he fired .at on day of the terroristic at- tempt. first Five Year Plan in 4 years and | beginning the Second Five-Year Plan, the capitalist countries are soene deeper and deeper into the/ The Annalist reports the utter stagnation in the automobile indus- try in the United tates as follows: “Little new is to be said of the automobile industry. The Ford hold- up, as it turns out to be, continues; production is almost stationary; and | retail sales seem to be disappointing ultilling sta in volumes," fight in the courts, workers through- | the lynch verdicts and to oppose the | present robber war on China and the | vention against successful socialist | delegates, representing fifty organizations, were present yesterday at the Chicago youth anti-war conference which was organized to push the fight against imperialist war and help prepare for National anti-| War Day, April 6. | Among the delegates were a large! number of Korean, Chinese and Ne- gro young workers. Militant student | groups in four universities were rep- resented, as well as a number of! youth bodies. working class against imperialist | war and for the defense of the Chin- ese masses and the Soviet Union. Tt | endorsed anti-War Day and ~ | Day. The discussion was concrete and| |ing to return to their organizations | with the message of a powerful uni- | ted front of workers, farmers, stu- | | dents and intellectuals against the \imperialist war plans. Special studenffit conferences, for- | ums and factory meetings are plan- tned to take place between now and April 6. These activilies will also be | |continued after April 6, to further) |develop the mass fight against the | plot of the bosses to plunge the world into a new and bloodier slaughter, in their offensive against the work- | jing class and against its advance} guard, the workers of the Soviet Un- ion. The main demonstration in Chi- cago on April 6 will take place at Union Park, Ogden and Randolph. In Warren, Ohio, the workers are | preparing a big demonstration at | Clinton and Main adel at 2 o'clock | April 6, | In scores of other cities through- out the country, workers and their organizations are speeding prepara- tions for a huge outpouring into the | street on April 6 in vehement protest against the bosses’ war plans, against | the robber war on China, against the | rapidly increasing war moves against the Losi Soviet Union. All Workers Fired As Pa. Plant Closes (By a Worker Correspondent.) SAYRE, Pa.—We have been work- ing in the railroad shops here for three days a week for over two years. | Since August we are working two | days a week. On Feb. 1 we had our | wages cut 10 per cent. In our neighborhood town, Athens, the Ingersol Rand Co. has closed its plant. Only one watchman is left to take care of the plant. Over 200 | workers lost their jobs in this lay-off. The conference unan-| | jimously endorsed the fight of the| | spirited, with all the delegates pledg- | | J. Ford, Mother | i Bloor and I. Amter | WillSpea k}| The Executive of the United |Front May Day-Anti War eater! ence at its meeting Saturday jissued a call to all affiliated or-| ganizations to bring their mem-| bership to the meeting and were | urged to come with their banners and placards. James Ford and Mother Bloor of the League of | Struggle for Negro Rights and the | national council of the Trade Union Unity League, will speak |at this demonstration, which, be- | |sides expressing the militant determination of the New York jworkers to defend the Soviet) | Union and the Chinese people, | will also raise a mighty demand | for hte immediate safe release of |the eight Scottsboro boys con- | |demned to death by the blood- | thirsty lynch supreme court of Alabama. | The United Front Committee further calls attention to the |complete stopping of the home| |relief bureau, by the Tammany | | Hall bankers’ government. This means subjecting tens of thou-| sands of destitute New York| workers and their families to ab- | | solute starvation. “The mass hun- | |ger and terror program of the) |bosses and their government,” | | stated the committee, “is part of | their feverish war preparations.” | | The statement urged a large turn- | out. The doors will open at |7 pm. JAM THE BRONX COLI-| | SEUM TOMORROW NIGHT! Anti-War Meet in Astoria, L. 1. | Protest War P lots| Against Soviets An Anti-War mass meeting will be | held by the Workers Club of Astoria Wednesday, April 6th at 8 p. m. at Bohemian Hall, 2919 Woolsey Avenue, corner Second Avenue, on the fif- teenth anniversary of the enry of the United States into the World war. This meeting is one of the thousands being held throughout the country in protest against the war plans of the government against the Chinese masses and the Soviet Union in- stigated by the bankers and “Big Business” the only ones who will profit from war. The meeting will demand that the huge war funds be for immediate relief of the unem- ployed. Speakers will expose the so-called “Block-Aid” plan, sponsored by J. P. Morgan and Normah Thomas, in- tended to throw the burden of unem- ployed relief on the shoulders of the working people is also being used as @ spy agency agaiinst militant workers, NEW YORK.—Over 3,000 3000 Students Vote Strike Against Editor’s Expulsion Columbia students massed on the steps of the Columbia library and wildly cheered the call to carry through a one day strike in protest against the ex- pulsion of Reed Harris, editor of the Columbia “Spectator.” the Columbia Social Probelms Club, » member of the National Executive Committee of the National Student Committee of the National Student League and one of the leaders of the student delegation to Kentucky was chairman at the meeting. Hall exposed the explusion of Har- ris as another example of the fact that the Wall St. controlled educa- tional system has never allowedsany “academic freedom” when the in- terests of the capitalist system are involved, “Harris was expelled,” declared Hall, “because he took the side of the working-class on all current problems, because he supported the student trip to Kentucky which exposed the starvation and terror conditions in the mine fields owned and controlled by the same mil- lionaires who control the policies of Columbia University, because he Sought pgainst the capitalists maili- Robert Hall, senior at Columbia University, president of tarizaion of the students through the Reserve Officers Training Corps, because he fought for the freeing of Tom Mooney, because he at- tacked the capitalist professionalism of “amateur athletics.” Every speaker stressed the fact that the explusoin of Harris was mainly due to his support of the struggles of the working-class. A statement issued by the National Student League declared that Harris had been expelled for a militant edit- orial policy in defense of student rights and for taking the worker’s side in the class struggle.” ‘The strike call set for Wednesday was issued by one of the students, Hundreds of students remained after the meeting to volunteer as pickets. ‘The true character of the.nature of college sports as the nucleus for fascist groups wae revealed in the JAPANESE SEND PLANES, ARMY TO USSR BORDER lWaeiunasnn - Officials Hail Move As New Threat Against U.S. S. R. Specilate On War The Japanese yester- day dispatched a large number of scouting, bombing .and combat planes to the Chientao district of Manchuria, near the border between Korea and the Soviet Union. Strong Japan- jese forces also have been or- dered into the district. The move is ostensibly directed against the rising national revolutionary struggle which, spreading all over Manchuria, is particularly strong in the Chientao district. The action of the Japanese has given rise to renewed speculations in official Washington circles on the question of how soon the Japanese will succeed in their plans to involve the Soviet Union in war. Wash- ‘ington dispatch to the w York ‘Times reports: “Manchuria’s guerrila warfare has reached a point not more than 100 miles from Vladivostok (this Soviet port is little more than 100 miles from the Korean-Soviet bor- der—Daily Worker) and foreign military observers are speculating as to whether Soviet Russia will remain complacent.” The dispatch, which is an expres: sion of official Washington opin- ion, admits that the Japanese mobil- ization is threatening the Siberian border of the Soviet Union. SECTION ORGANIZERS AND VOLUNTEERS ARE TO REPORT | AT THE BRONX COLISEUM, | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6TH, AT | 6 P. M. SHARP, LYNCH COURT IN DEATH VERDICT FOR NEGRO YOUTH PHILADELPHIA, Apr. 4.—Willie Brown, framed-up Negro youth, was found guilty yesterday by & jury from which Negroes were de- liberately excluded. The “trial” was rushed through in a tense lynch atmosphere. Young Brown was arrested on the charge . of murdering a white girl. The arrest- ing officer admitted that he had no other reason for arresting the youth except a “hunch” and the fact that the youth did not look so good. Local Negro reformists openly helped the bosses carry through the frame-up. A few days before the “trial,” John M. Marquess, ex- alted ruler of the Quaker City Lodge, made a vicious attack against the youth, in which he also questioned the character of the boy’s mother. He attacked the In- ternational Labor Defense for its exposure of the frameup against the boy, declaring that the L L. D.’s expose “represented an unjust procedure calculated to injure the fairmindedness of colored people of Philadelphia.” This was an attempt to get the Negro masses to believe in the “fairness” and “justice” of the courts of the bosses who rob and oppress them. This is a repe- tition of the tactics of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. in their attack ‘on the defense of the Scottsboro Negro boys, attempts of the Columbia athletic teams to break up the meeting by throwing apples at the speakers, The tremendous sentiment among the stu- dents, however, prevented their plan- ned attack and |saw to that the meeting continued. Butler, who parades himself as a Uberal, was roundly attacked by all the students. The veil of liberalism behind which he acted as a tool of Wall St. was ripped off as one by one the speakers regretted only two short- comings in the editorial policy of the “Spectator’—that is had supported Butler on two occasions } ‘